Reply #37: early and unrecognized gathering don't count as 'British Democracy'

[whoneedstickets]

These meeting had no power vis-a-vis the crown. The mere fact that British society was around longer and that a few members played around with the concept does not a democracy make. Britain didn't even have universal male suffrage until the 1900s. Parliament didn't incorporate any concept of equal representations of people in territorial districts until the 1830s. The power of the monarch wasn't really pre-empted until the late 1800's