Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s
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The Pros and Cons of Democracy
By 1700, England is not a democracy in any kind of modern sense. Historians are very charry about the word 'democratization' We're seeing something very, very complicated,' he says. But if we were to permit ourselves a small tidbit of the sin of wiggery, of wig history, then what we can say is that if we want to get to a democracy, we need to have popular sovereignty first.'
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