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That's not a matter of fact, that's a matter of semantics. Checking up on your fact, I find that the Althingi was founded in 930 but suspended in 1789 and Icela
by hugh3 16y ago
That's not a matter of fact, that's a matter of semantics. Checking up on your fact, I find that the Althingi was founded in 930 but suspended in 1789 and Iceland was ruled by Denmark until 1918, so that doesn't sound very continuous.
England has had a (Cromwell aside) unbroken series of monarchs since 1066, does that count?
Still, the US should get some kind of old-government distinction since it's had absolutely uninterrupted constitutional democracy on all levels since Washington's time. (At least in the states that didn't secede.)
- waqf 16y agoThe author had to mention England explicitly in order to give an excuse for why it didn't count. (I would be interested to learn when this supposed "transition from monarchy to democracy" took place. 1215? 1689?) Yes, that was the paragraph that lost me all respect for the article.
- saulhoward 16y ago> the US should get some kind of old-government distinction "Washington's time" was only 270 years ago! As experiments in government go, the USA is still a spring-chicken.