The power to recognize foreign nations is best categorized as part of the role of head diplomat, although lots of this responsibility falls to the Secretary of State.
It depends how far back you are talking about. If you are talking back to the 1700s it would be cotton. If you are talking about a time period even father back than that, sorry, I can't help. Hope this helped.
That is a tough question. For a time, about 50 years, Athens had a direct democracy in which citizens (only those eligible which were adult male citizens) directly voted on legislation and executive bills. It was more democratic than our representative government today in America, but it is hard to say whether it was a "full" democracy or not without the definition of a "full" democracy provided. I hope with the information I have given you can determine whether they did or not.
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I believe the problem is that Shelters are unable to accommodate the increase in the number of stray animals.
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