When I was in high school (late 70s early 80s)we were taught that we were in truth a representative republic but that FDR started calling the US a democracy because it sounded more like democrat.We also learned that the civil war was primarily about economics,not to minimize the abhorrence of slavery but to reflect the overall history of the era.I don`t imagine a school child has heard these things in the last decade or more.
I don`t imagine a school child has heard these things in the last decade or more.
LOL mine has !