December 25th was the day Christ was born so we celebrate Christmas on his birthday
False. The empire ended with the overthrow of the last Czar and establishment of the [first] Russian Republic in 1917. It was the Republic which was changed to the USSR
James Madison played a great role in establishment of the US as a republic. During the writing of the constitution, the founding fathers were adamant that they wanted democratic system of governance. However, they were torn between a direct democracy and a republican democracy. James Madison dismissed a direct democracy since the US is a large country and thus impossible to be governed through direct pure democracy. Instead, the father of the constitution argued for a scheme of representation in a republican setting. He especially lauded such a government since it even catered for the rights of the minority than in direct democracies.
