I like this, tho Vietnam would seem to be a fly in the ointment. Different circumstances mean that America just cuts its losses early, instead of the quagmire of deepening involvement?
I have no knowledge on the subject and no stake in any resulting argument, I'm genuinely just asking here:
Could part of this similarity have been because the Constitution of the Free State was drafted after the Anti-Treaty people split off, and so the people who had the most influence on the...
You think the radicalizing effect of war and then the validation of victory would have led them to move on to a document that wasn’t just a carbon copy of of the US Constitution (but with extra slavery)? Or is there some other reason?
I did about four seconds of research and apparently, while that's what most contemporaries thought, there's no solid evidence for him even having syphilis, and his mental fragility could have come from any number of other reasons. Serves me right for being lazy, I suppose.
It was my understanding that French Canadians just gradually became part of the Democratic coalition by the end of the Fourth Party System, much like other “white ethnics” in New England. Am I mistaken in that-or did I misunderstand your statement in the first place?