It was primarily the "Iran Hostage Crisis" that hurt Carter in the election of 1980, since this crises ended up getting dragged out for longer than expected and made the US look weak.
The US government is a Democratic Republic, which come from the Greek democracy and the Roman Republic.
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Many considered Louis XVI to be ineffectual mainly because of the fact that the revolution had already taken place, and that he was unable to enact any meaningful policies.
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wrote works praising one of the other philosophers who left no writings