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Originally posted by Mike AI@Jan 20 2005, 10:08 AM
Nick who did out Founding Father's copy?
Come now, the US is the longest continual democracy in the WORLD today.
Don't hate... embrace!!
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Just noticed this and had to respond
Prior to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment on August 18th 1920, there is no way on earth the United States could be termed a democracy.
Denying over half your population the vote is really not democratic.
So I would claim New Zealand as the longest continual democracy in the world, which authorized women's suffrage in 1893, a full 27 years prior.