Its 1780 Constitution marked Revolutionary America's first attempt to create new legal and political arrangements that gave individual citizens rights in the newly liberated nation.
So it makes a sort of sense that there is a new flag flying above the New York City standard in front of borough hall on Friday: the red-black-and-green, crescent-and-starred banner of the newly liberated nation of Libya.
Promises of a voluntary and effective commonwealth of liberated nations soon became a rueful memory.
As a result -- as in many newly liberated nations -- Indonesia's road from repression to democracy is wild and uncertain.
Such hallmarks of democracy are all but absent in most of the former Soviet Union and in some other recently liberated nations.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, these newly liberated nations have become battlegrounds for Islamic extremists, moderates and secularists, all contending for power and influence over the direction of democratic change.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, newly liberated nations have become battlegrounds for Islamic extremists, moderates and secularists, all contending for power and influence over the direction of democratic change.
Another was that German prisoners would not be fed at a higher level than German civilians, than the civilians of the liberated nations, or than the displaced persons (D.P.'s).
Saddam's statues join the rotting, rusty crafted images of the worst of rulers; and the fate of his people -- like that of other liberated nations -- will presumably be a lot better without him.
Then, after World War II, when victory in Europe could well have led the liberated nations to sneer in resentment at the triumph of American might, generous young French critics armed with the auteur theory discovered that a cluster, or pantheon, of directors within the Hollywood system had always been major artists too: Nicholas Ray was up there with Carl Dreyer, and so on.
Leading Brutalist architects were commissioned for many grand projects - museums, universities, hotels - in the newly liberated nations.
