<span>Christopher Columbus was a </span>Spanish explorer.
So that if we won the Revolutionary War we'd already have a set of principal's for us and our Government to follow for years and years.
If this refers to the democratic republic body of governance like in the U.S. Then from the three body; executive, legislative and judicial. I would presume that the executive has varied greatly over the years, in that, there can be changes from the office and people in power.
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