That depends what you mean by early, do you mean the civilizations of Egypt or Mesopotamia or Israel.
<span><span>Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty oath</span>No pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20,000<span>A state needed to abolish slavery before being readmitted</span>A state was required to repeal its secession ordinance before being readmitted.</span>Most of the seceded states began compliance with the president’s program. Congress was not in session, so there was no immediate objection from that quarter. However, Congress reconvened in December and refused to seat the Southern representatives.
Reconstruction had produced another deadlock between the president and Congress.
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Democracy is the best from of government, because everyone gets to vote and have a say in the way laws are made and executed. In theory, since things are run by the people in a democracy, the government is less likely to get corrupted. Not to mention, if a government does at some point get corrupted, people can just choose to elect a new leader.
Hope this makes sense :D
The best explanation as to why the Twenty-First Amendment was ratified in 1933, repealing the 18th Amendment would be that "<span>b. The banning of alcohol had been an expensive mistake. Rather than spend money trying to enforce an unpopular law the government could tax alcohol," since Prohibition had been deemed a failure. </span>