Though most Americans assume democracy arrived with the adoption of the Constitution in the late eig
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- Political Order and Political Decay whole source · open book
Though most Americans assume democracy arrived with the adoption of the Constitution in the late eighteenth century, the franchise was severely limited in 1787 and was progressively opened up to white men without property, African Americans, and women in a slow process that wasn’t completed until ra
chapter: Chapter 28: The Long Road to Democracy