No Electoral College in the USA

So well, that later generations revere them as demigods when there was scarcely a principled political act at all among them.

I must respectfully disagree.

Sure, they weren't as tolerant or progressive as we are today, but they did what few other movements before them managed to do. They created a governmental system that has stood the test of time. The French tried to create the perfect society, but all that came of it was the rise of a military strongman. (Though in favor of the French revolutionaries, they did also have to contend with the reactionary governments who wanted to destroy the Republic. Which lead to the military being very important.)

I can't think of any major state at that time that allowed blacks or women to have a say, at least not until the French revolution. (I admit to lack of knowledge of revolutionary France.) So I'm not sure I can hold that against them, though I'm certainly glad change has come over the years, even if we're far from being a perfect unprejudiced society.
 
I can't think of any major state at that time that allowed blacks or women to have a say, at least not until the French revolution. (I admit to lack of knowledge of revolutionary France.) So I'm not sure I can hold that against them, though I'm certainly glad change has come over the years, even if we're far from being a perfect unprejudiced society.

Olympe de Goughes, the first woman daring to demand completely equal political rights for woman, got under the Guillotine.

France granted female suffrage in... 1945!
 
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