I am positive the Founders of the U.S. and their progenitors knew of these governments and modeled aspects of the U.S. government on them—New Englanders who migrated from the Netherlands certainly knew about them.
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Plus, I’m already an established scholar of early America so I no longer have to worry about peers wondering if I’m an early Americanist or Early Modern Europeans, which was my advisor’s argument against pursuing this as a dissertation topic.
I can see in some of the early literature I’m reading on unions that scholars thought about these connections too, but they left them as unexplored rabbit holes. I wonder if this non-exploration is a product of American exceptionalism.
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