[Alberta's Child]

. . . exactly how many of those governments were representative republics?

When you are dealing with an electorate as dumb as ours, does it really matter? Totalitarian governments are not the only ones that rot from within, as evidenced by almost every "representative" government in the West.

[newgeezer]

Obvious solution (as every good FReeper knows):

Repeal the 19th Amendment and all the others >15.