Are you suggesting that 1600s Parliament is what anyone today would call "representative democracy"?
They like to imply democracy has a longer history than it does: less than 5% of adult males had a vote.
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And that is apparently that is plenty for achieving all demotist pathologies.
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It lasted longer than any full-suffrage democracy ever has. Still, England never recovered fully from the Civil War, I admit that.
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The house of commons creates social ties to the lower strata and muddies the chain of ownership. That's your stage 1 melanoma.
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It merely decayed slower than the non-diseased parts were growing, until Enlightenment times.
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