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[tinyjo]

Alex and I were discussing something only tangentially related recently when I realised that the UK is the only country I can think of which has kind of evolved a democracy in a fairly undramatic and very gradual fashion. All the other countries about who's governmental history I know have either started as more or less democracies (e.g. America), had revolutions (e.g. France) or been pushed into it by other powers (e.g. India). I'm sure there must be others though - some of the Nordic states perhaps? Enlighten me, friends list.

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Re: BTW

[white_hart]

Just somewhat obessed with the French Revolution, is all. I blame it on reading The Scarlet Pimpernel at too impressionable an age...

Re: BTW

[dotty.livejournal.com]

That would do it, yes. We tend to be brainwashed with the Revolution for years in secondary school and high school. It never ends, really. Lucky I escaped to UK then, though I should have never started with Sheffield as a first destination, way too bleak.