How many hundreds of years into the 250 before all the blacks and indigenous peoples (well those that had managed to survive) were granted participatory rights in this strange democracy?
There have recently been numerous references to the USA constitution being based on the main provisions of our British Magna Carta. I think that is probably true but we had to modify those terms several times until we eventually had universal suffrage giving voting rights to women and people who did not own property. The purpose was for the Barons (medieval oligarchs) to take away the absolute power of the monarch to abuse their position and to effectively give a tax cut to the wealthy. The USA retained the right for the wealthy to have the last say in extra votes from each state in a unique manner that should have gone years ago. The Barons still have control in the form of excess influence from private and corporate wealth. In the UK, we have controls but they are again under attack and need further tighter control of potential corrupt influence. So we are right to celebrate your 250 years but it doesn't mean we approve the incomplete state of your political democratic development so far.
“the world’s first democracy”.
How many hundreds of years into the 250 before all the blacks and indigenous peoples (well those that had managed to survive) were granted participatory rights in this strange democracy?
There have recently been numerous references to the USA constitution being based on the main provisions of our British Magna Carta. I think that is probably true but we had to modify those terms several times until we eventually had universal suffrage giving voting rights to women and people who did not own property. The purpose was for the Barons (medieval oligarchs) to take away the absolute power of the monarch to abuse their position and to effectively give a tax cut to the wealthy. The USA retained the right for the wealthy to have the last say in extra votes from each state in a unique manner that should have gone years ago. The Barons still have control in the form of excess influence from private and corporate wealth. In the UK, we have controls but they are again under attack and need further tighter control of potential corrupt influence. So we are right to celebrate your 250 years but it doesn't mean we approve the incomplete state of your political democratic development so far.
Absolutely bang on.
I would love to say that I contributed to our own country's political direction with my postal vote. But my postal voting form failed to arrive.
Forgive me, but I needed to tell someone outside of Norwich City Council, they have already received a polite tongue lashing from me.
I asked them to put an estimated monetary value on my vote too.