Technically the 6 Nations, which the US copied a lot of their democracy, is older by several thousand years, but people like to pretend they are all dead.
Those are pretty neat! I’m guessing the commenter who made the original statement was referring to countries so doubt this would invalidate their statement.
The country I see people saying that’s older is England, but with the monarch messes things up depending on definitions (the US constitution even mentions the king quite a few times so was England considered a democracy yet?).
It’s probably one of those things where the definition is loose enough that many different countries/organizations can claim to be the oldest and be right under whatever criteria they’ve decided
It’s probably a bit arbitrary, but best I can find England’s democracy is younger. Likely due to the king still having certain powers preventing England from being considered a democracy until a good bit after the founding of the US
Yes, the american democracy is the oldest under a very narrow view of what constitutes a democracy, which basically the republic style yall invented, not even a real democracy anyways.
Wait, is there another? The US is often cited as the oldest democracy. It’s not the first of course, but that’s a different thing
One of the oldest still active democracy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)
If you go back in history there are a lot more you can choose from.
Technically the 6 Nations, which the US copied a lot of their democracy, is older by several thousand years, but people like to pretend they are all dead.
Those are pretty neat! I’m guessing the commenter who made the original statement was referring to countries so doubt this would invalidate their statement.
The country I see people saying that’s older is England, but with the monarch messes things up depending on definitions (the US constitution even mentions the king quite a few times so was England considered a democracy yet?).
It’s probably one of those things where the definition is loose enough that many different countries/organizations can claim to be the oldest and be right under whatever criteria they’ve decided
England’s is far older, I don’t know if it’s the oldest but it’s much older.
I don’t think back in 1776 England was very democratic
well maybe you don’t know much about 1776 England.
You convinced me!
No like seriously dude their parliament is very old. They just don’t have a constitution or a start date.
Magna fuckin Carta, dozy
The Magna fuckin Carta was just the Barons taking power away from the King.
It’s not even at the level of 3000 year old Ancient Helenic Democracy which itself was flawed as fuck (only free men got a say, no slaves or women).
I was referring to the “constitution”, it’s their version
It’s probably a bit arbitrary, but best I can find England’s democracy is younger. Likely due to the king still having certain powers preventing England from being considered a democracy until a good bit after the founding of the US
Yes, the american democracy is the oldest under a very narrow view of what constitutes a democracy, which basically the republic style yall invented, not even a real democracy anyways.