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Originally posted by Technick@Jan 20 2005, 05:53 PM
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.
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I call anachronism. How about 5th century BC Athens? Considered the prototype and yet not everyone had the right to vote. Not even close.