Gaelic society was a tribal one which, while united by language, culture and religion, also stubbornly refused to yield to anything like political unity. So while the rest of Europe tended to drift, often bloodily, towards forming coherent political entities, Ireland remained divided. ... Originally, Patrick had envisaged establishing the system of Bishops and Archbishops like in other countries but the lack of roads and towns, and the absence of political unity meant that monastic religion remained more suitable. ... Patrick and the Vikings, Irish politics changed considerably and one could a...

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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ... He has affected to re...

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