How does the Democracy Index developed by The Economist magazine evaluate the success of new democracies?

Researchers have found that it takes to view a mental image that is larger or covers more distance than a smaller or more compact one.

This was an act of continental congress which initially organized the first united states territory and was to be the basis for governing how the united states would expand westward.

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