Pirate ships were significantly more cooperative and orderly than their popular depiction, and this order was grounded in a system of early constitutional democracy with elected officers and a written code that functioned to keep the criminal enterprise together.
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Peter LeesonEvidence Quote
“pirate ships it seems were incredibly cooperative and orderly they weren't perfectly so but they were but they were significantly more more orderly and cooperative than they're typically depicted”
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