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The West was never a democracy until it suddenly was one. Heads rolled.
by lvs 8y ago
The West was never a democracy until it suddenly was one. Heads rolled.
- Zuider 8y agoHeads rolled in France, but that lead to the totalitarian Jacobin regime. Across the channel in Britain, democracy had been growing slowly since the signing of the Magna Carta began the process of subjecting power to the rule of law, divesting the monarch of the claim to absolute power and distributing that power among institutions such as parliament.
- vl 8y ago"Never" is an overstatement, since both Rome and Greece had some forms of democracy.