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Up until 1895, the U.S. didn't get involved when European governments would create puppet governments, so as to avoid obvious colonization.
The current population of Brazil is 210,904,703.
Basically they wanted to have the same shape of governmen known as parliament. It used to be different before we became allies with them and helped influence them to what they have become today. Also we became like them as they helped us economically and military as we grew into our own nation
Political philosophers are Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and then for more of the religious philosopher there's Jonathan Edwards