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    AHC: Earliest plausible stable middle-class suffrage in Western Europe, earliest declaration of rights of man?

    Very interesting scenario. So, theoretically, they could have gotten an English (or British?) Republic going with a wide manhood suffrage going consistently from the mid-to-late 1600s? That makes for quite a different world. If they are a more or less democratic republic for the century...
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    AHC: Earliest plausible stable middle-class suffrage in Western Europe, earliest declaration of rights of man?

    Edmund Burke seemed to think the French declaration was a big deal, and scary incitement, because it seemed more missionary/weird coming France than English-speakers, and well, because Anglo-chauvinism, the French hadn't gone through all the right historical steps, and no shortbread for you...
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    AHC: Earliest plausible stable middle-class suffrage in Western Europe, earliest declaration of rights of man?

    OK, this is more of a group of challenges, but other ideas in a related vein are welcome - but I think I owe concrete examples and outcomes I'm look for: 1. How early could the franchise for British parliamentary elections been made about as wide as it was by 1832 Great Reform Bill, and stayed...
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