Also the Isle of Man and the Althing in several Northern European Countries predate us by a goodly bit. (And if you are willing to call a Republic a Democracy, you can't really complain that the other Republican forms of governments aren't Democracies.) Further I'd hesitate to set the US's date as a "Democracy" any earlier than the 19th Amendment, and possibly the 24th.
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Date: 2009-07-02 06:38 pm (UTC)Further I'd hesitate to set the US's date as a "Democracy" any earlier than the 19th Amendment, and possibly the 24th.