When you think of a channel think of trade. Or boats going up and down a stream, a channel is a body of water.
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The proposal of Samuel Gompers under the American Federation of Labor is UNIONISM. Gompers repudiated socialism and he advocates a pragmatic unionism. He proposed the an agreement containing clauses stipulating union members (closed shop) and that employee should be required to pay the employer advocating the open shop.
Ancient Athens were the society that practiced direct democracy.
The Protestant Reformation, with its antipathy toward received religious dogma, was another precursor. Perhaps the most important sources of what became the Enlightenment were the complementary rational and empirical methods of discovering truth that were introduced by the scientific revolution.
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