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How could there be more 'democratic' systems where the franchise is limited based on a wealth or property requirement? This was once the way most democracies worked, but even as totally undemocratic regimes have continued to exist in great numbers, this sort of semi-democracy has become almost non-existent. Could this have gone another way? Could OTL democracies have retained this feature? Or could societies that weren't democratic in OTL have been willing to risk this more limited version of democracy, where without the option in OTL they remained autocratic?
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