Founding Fatharrrrghs

Written by Steve

Thursday, 22 October 2009 03:27

This article first appeared in the September 2009 issue of Bazooka Magazine.

When most people think of democracy in the New World, they think of a rag-tag band of rebels who stood up against a tyrannical British king. In truth, many important democratic principles were alive and well for a century or more before America’s founding fathers began their great experiment. Ironically, the earliest democratically elected leaders in the Americas, pirate captains, are often portrayed as bloodthirsty tyrants in popular culture. Despite their brutality towards victims, the social contract in place aboard a pirate ship embodied many concepts that most of us learned about in Civics class.

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