You know even the colonial charters of the Thirteen Colonies were very very advanced forms of govt for their day
ONLY FREE MEN WITH PROPERTY COULD VOTE oh yeah? It's the 18th Century. Please list the polities where *anyone* could vote in 1763
Certainly more advanced than in Britain itself, which still had such things as rotten boroughs at the time
And Britain was quite advanced on an absolute scale! As were patrician republics like Venice and the United Provinces of the Netherlands
But the colonial charters were more democratic than either
And they were much less democratic than the first state constitutions that followed!
But the colonial charters were more democratic than either
And they were much less democratic than the first state constitutions that followed!
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