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Has a democratic nation ever survived long-term (centuries) with universal suffrage?


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Has a democratic nation ever survived long-term (centuries) with universal suffrage?
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First for /pol/
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Has a nation ever had universal suffrage before ~100 years ago?
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we've barely even had a century
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>>47256
yeah, the USA has
don't they have like 240 years and still running?
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>>47256
>nation
Were a largely 18th and 19th century invention.

>universal suffrage
Is a 20th century invention.

Answer is "no" decisively.
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>>47256
>has a thing that was only invented 100 years ago been able to survive for more than 100 years?
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>>47307
No, the USA wouldn't let anyone but male landowners vote originally.

>>47371
Surely there are other examples in history.
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>>47281
I live in the nation with the longest history of universal suffrage (1893-).

We're still doing okay.
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>>47307
Not with universal suffrage. The US only got that in 1965.
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>>47434
What nation is that?
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>>47256
Perhaps our great-grandsons will answer you, senpai.
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>>47489
New Zealand.
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>>47439

>1965

You mean 1920?
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>>47556
The negroes anon.
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>>47547
>literally living on the edge of the world
easy mode, doesn't count
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>>47591

Sheeeeeeeit. Thought he meant womyn
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>>47256
Roughly the same number who have survived multiple centuries with fiber optics.
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>>1
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>>47256
Are you retarded? Have you literally never taken a history course?
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