<u>ANSWER</u>:
Democracy type of government is most closely defined by the given quote.
<u>EXPLANATION:</u>
- The 'Declaration of Independence' was a historic proclamation signed on the '4th of July, 1776' that cut all the political ties with the Empire of Great Britain and established America as an 'independent nation'.
- Also, by signing this proclamation, the newly 'independent USA' made an official alliance with the 'Kingdom of France' and acquired military assistance from the French in the 'Revolutionary War' against Great Britain.
The First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another.
The Southern ambivalence to its values and the republican stance of Lincoln being against the values thus thought made the South fall into the hands of Democrats.
Explanation:
The Democrats of the recent age have a strenuous grasp on the country's south at best but this was not the case in the post civil war US when the South was extremely agitated.
The South was agitated against the republicans due to their own notions of an ideal southern value which was forsaken by the republicans.
So they began voting for candidates from the Democratic party in passive numbers in the elections after the civil war happened in the response to the war time plight
