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- Robert Welch delivered a speech in 1961 discussing the principles of republics and democracies. - He traces the origins of these forms of government back to ancient Greece, noting that Solon established the first written laws and regulations for self-governance in Athens in 594 BC. - While Athens and other Greek city-states experimented with democracy, they never fully established a stable republican system of government with a fixed constitution, instead falling under tyrants at times. Rome built upon

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C. Mitchell Shaw

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