The main reason why democracy is called a government by discussion and persuasion is because the "majority opinion" of the voting base makes up policy at the state level, and in order to shift a majority opinion it often requires large amounts of debate and discussion of the issues at hand.
In the American colonies, the favored party (I'm assuming you mean party's wishes) is Republican.
Answer:
Sales of indulgences by the Church
Explanation:
Martin Luther was a Catholic priest in the German province of Saxony who got baffled with the defilement and avarice he saw inside the Church, and started to lose confidence that the Church would lead him to salvation. In his investigation of the Bible, he decided "that it isn't the Church, however his own individual confidence that will ensure his salvation.
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The answer is the algonquins and iroquois