The answer would be yes. Modern democracy has the Athenians and Pericles to thank for bringing the ideas to fruition.
I do believe that at the time, the vice president was George Clinton.
In George Washington's words "A pasionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils".
With this statement, as well as a many others in his famous Farewell Address, what Washington was mainly trying to warn the American people about is that becoming fanatical of any political party or overly-obsessive about geographical divisions would always set-up injustice. The privilege of any Nation always comes at the expense of others when sympathy grows into an illusion of "an imaginary common interest". Also of much importance, alliances must be chosen wisely as to not end up betraying the interests of our own Nation in order to defend these alliances. When they're formed without good justification, we end up wrongly following blind and passionate attachment instead of reason.
Hope this helps out!
When Europeans arrived in the 1500s, an estimated 5 million people were living under Aztec. They formed a mighty empire by conquering adjacent cities. And they also controlled trade in the region and demanded tribute or payment from the cities they conquered.
