> Then women were allowed to vote in the 1920's. In a rights-review, black men were seen as higher standing than women. Did you actually mean to respond to my

> Then women were allowed to vote in the 1920's. In a rights-review, black men were seen as higher standing than women. Did you actually mean to respond to my comment? I acknowledge this and mention Switzerland, where I lived for years, due in part to its refusal of women's suffrage through much of the 20th century (1990 or so in one canton). That seems to make this definition of democracy, if used to preclude the US, rather questionable if not inaccurate.