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Democracy

The former foreign minister of Russia provides a unique look inside his country's leadership and reflects on the prospects for democracy there.

The first votes of the fledgling Virginia Assembly in 1619 marked the inception of the most important political development in American history — the rise of democracy.

Editor's Note: Historian James Horn, a frequent contributor to American Heritage, is President of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation.

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