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Pat Buchanan claimed that Regan cleared the way for Nixon's nomination in 1968. Is this true? What were relations between Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon like?	1
To what extent was the development of Business Corporation in the United States and European countries in 18th and 19th century influenced by Ancient Roman laws?	1
[Childhood] In modern political debates, people often say "We are passing all this debt to our children and grandchildren" when criticizing high Government debt. Is this a recent phenomenon or was this argument used in the previous centuries when Government debt got high?	1
Fascism and National Socialism valorised the solider and war-making while despising commercial society of modern capitalism. Did they have any practical impact on reconstituting day-to-day life of a normal bourgeois society for a war-making and militaristic one?	1
How accurate is the claim that the Roman economy was form of Raubwirtschaft? Was it's prosperity really based on plunder and looting of other territories?	1
Was Colonialism inevitable under the system of Capitalist development? To what extent, did Capitalists see it as a necessity?	1
How did the management and organization of Soviet Collectivist enterprises differ from enterprises in Capitalist countries?	1
I have read many articles which blame Peron and "Peronists" for Argentina's economic stagnation and various other problems including clientelism. How much of a role did Peron in shaping Modern Argentina and how do historians judge his legacy?	1
Why didn't beauty pageants cease to exist after being protested by feminists during the '60's cultural revolution in which many of existing practices touching on gender, race that were critiqued gradually ended?	1
How did the American public react to mass shootings in the 1960's/70's/80's? Was the debate as heated and or polarized as today?	1

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