is a term carefully defined and explained by Hannah Arendt (evil is banal)in her book On Revolution. Essentially it is this. And since my response to a former diary that is expiring was so long I thought it better to just make a new diary of it.
The first settlers arriving in the New World were seeking religious freedom and they really felt as if they were coming to the "Promised Land" identifying with the Israelites as Moses had led them out of Egypt. Even on the ships before landing many groups drew up covenants or constitutions if you will.
When they built their communities they had meetings,decided laws, punishments, rights,etc. Gradually as there were more communities each one selected an eager and knowledgeable person from their community to go to meetings with selected persons from other communities. (Are you seeing now how it began?) Then out of these persons selections were made to go to larger bodies of representation to discuss common difficulties and solutions.
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