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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Democracy is a form of government where the people own the sovereignty of their country and do not answer to the whims of particular individuals or organizations. It operates by consensus and compromise, whereby the general welfare of the community is improved over time. Liberty and equality are its primary tenants and peace and prosperity are its ultimate goals. In theory, where the people only do what is in their best interests, democracy can be the most successful political system. However, in practice, factors such as lack of information, personal greed or ambition and foreign influence will cause it to fail. The nature of the democratic system is taken advantage of by someone or another for their own gain, ruining it in the process.

But what if democracy reached that point where it sustains itself, against foreign and domestic influences, in pursuit of its own preservation and success? This could only come to pass in the nascent stages of its modern development, when the ways in which it could be corrupted and manipulated had not yet been devised. The 18th century was just such a period. American colonists ousted the British Empire from the Thirteen Colonies in 1783 and Parisians were growing discontent with their monarch, Louis XVI. Though in OTL this brief wave of revolutionary sentiment failed to firmly spread to other countries, an earlier and more immediately successful French Revolution might have changed this.