"Chris Brown" wrote in message
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In article ,
Dimitrios Tzortzakakis wrote:
says...

Quite amusing to see someone with a Greek name
mistaking Democracy as something "from USA".

I mean modern democracy, not ancient.

You're still wrong - England had a democratically elected parliament
before
the USA even existed, and question over its supremacy over the monarch was
settled quite convincingly by its ordering the removal of Charles I's head
in the mid 17th century.

OK, so only a small proportion of the population could vote, but that was
also the case in the US for a long time. If you're looking for the first
example of a democratic system with universal suffrage, then New Zealand
is
probably as close as you're going to get.

Wyoming recognized the right of women to vote in the 1880s, IIRC. Of
course, that's only a component of a democratic entity, not an entity to
itself.

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