Reply #57: You're making up your own definition

[Prophet 451]

You're inserting a requirement that doesn't exist in the definition. No definition of democracy requires a lack of hereditary monarchy. If you want to define democracy as an elected government, then it dates from the Glorious Revolution. If you want to define it as a restriction on the power of royalty then A) that's not part of any definition of democracy and B) it dates from either the Magna Carta in 1215 or the Bill of Rights in 1689.

You're making up your own definition of democracy just so you can claim that the USA was first. That's no different than conservatives claiming the USA was always a Christian nation.