Voting rights were very restricted, and although the people enjoyed a great deal of political freedom, they were not, strictly speaking, constituted as rulers of the state.

The eleventh and twelfth century Italian communes were oligarchies that dared to flirt with democracy.

Thus a democracy, of all the forms of government, is among the most recent to be formed, if we understand what a democracy really means.

In overthrowing King James Ⅱ and replacing him with a monarch who agreed to be responsible to the Parliament, the English in 1689 established perhaps the first true government of law.

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