Lisi Resiz wrote: > oldest continuous democratic government!!!!! John Hasler wrote: > Right. It's actually Finland, of course.
> Within europe, i bet on San Marino... If you ignore the PFS period. > ...and Iceland. If you ignore being owned by Denmark (and the fact that it is not within Europe). > Finland was a colony of Sweden and/or Russia during most of the last > few hundred years. Finland was the first nation to grant full poltical rights to all women and to all races. It can be argued that no nation in which women cannot vote is a democracy. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
