pbrower2a1 I QUOTE AND PRIOR COMMENT HERE

"...without it, America would be more like Canada, with a parliamentary system which would have been more attractive perhaps in the 1870s after the British undid their 'rotten boroughs' that planted huge numbers of flunkies of George III in Parliament at the time of the American Revolution...." pbrower2a1

Pbrower believes that our founding fathers were modern liberal democrats.....and that Britain's rotten boroughs held it back from advanced American democracy....

Saturday, July 7, 2018

AMERICAN REBEL SO CALLED DEMOCRACY

 Re:    pbrower2a1 CHUNKY RANT AND DK REJOINDER GREAT STUFF

"...The Commonwealthmen did not, then, seek to destroy gentry hegemony; nor were they democrats...." Clark, p. 293

The spiritual progenitors of the founding fathers had other aspirations, and other targets.

One of them was not Parliamentary (i.e. wider voting franchise) reform.

That was toyed with, briefly,  'populist enfranchisement', by out of power Tories, ironically enough, but neither by in nor out of power Whigs!

(Both Court, and ballot box, packing have a long and venerable history.)