/lit/ - Literature

>>19793001
>still filled their works with references (admittedly altered and misquoted) to the founding fathers, called their new autocratic state-head 'president', and kept 'republic' and 'democracy' in the lexicon of their self-justifying statehood
I'm sure they will. Just like the Caesars came up with "Imperator" or "Pater Patria" to avoid calling themselves kings. There will probably even be some lip service to "liberal democracy" or "free press", albeit as institutions now controlled by a central authority.
>those Church Fathers who lived during and after the reign of Constantine, the Empire of Christ was seen as entirely continuous with ancient Rome
Thanks anon. You put a smile on my face imagining the future popes and warlords calling themselves princes of America, or something similar.