Since democracy is accepted as being as government by the people, I got quite a laugh reading a letter to the editor by the Honorary counsel to Switzerland, Peter Bangater, claiming that Switzerland had the oldest democracy in the world.
And heartily did I laugh since Swiss women only got the vote in 1971, 27 years after women in little Jamaica. But on the other hand, if you do not consider women to be people, then I guess you can boast about having a well established democracy!
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