"The United States of America has the oldest government in the world."
That's sure not true. Iceland holds that distinction. Google News might have screwed up their layout, but Google is still helpful for fact checking before publishing.
That's sure not true. Iceland holds that distinction. Google News might have screwed up their layout, but Google is still helpful for fact checking before publishing.
England has had a (Cromwell aside) unbroken series of monarchs since 1066, does that count?
Still, the US should get some kind of old-government distinction since it's had absolutely uninterrupted constitutional democracy on all levels since Washington's time. (At least in the states that didn't secede.)
Yes, that was the paragraph that lost me all respect for the article.
"Washington's time" was only 270 years ago! As experiments in government go, the USA is still a spring-chicken.