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> Third, representative government. Laws should not be passed, nor taxes levied, except by elected legislators who are answerable to the rest of us. This must
by firstOrder 13y ago
> Third, representative government. Laws should not be passed, nor taxes levied, except by elected legislators who are answerable to the rest of us.
This must be why the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association's slogan in 1967 was "one man, one vote". The native population of northern Ireland saw American blacks in Mississippi on the telly and wanted to get the kind of enfranchisement they were getting.
Workers in Manchester in 1819 who had a rally for the vote were massacred by a cavalry charge.
Of course all of this was paradise compared to what Rhodesians, Indians, South Africans etc. were going through.
What a load of bollocks