Today is Election Day in the United States. It is also the birth date of American social activist and journalist Dorothy Day (1897), Indian novelist Raja Rao (1908), and American novelist Margaret Mitchell (1936).
I find it odd that you fail to mention the first written document, written in 1620, that declared all people in their colony (well, men, but consider the times) were to determine their leadership by vote, regardless of status. This document, signed by all men, was the Mayflower Compact, acknowledged to be one of the bases of the Massachusetts Constitution, itself influential in the creation of the US Constitution.
I find it odd that you fail to mention the first written document, written in 1620, that declared all people in their colony (well, men, but consider the times) were to determine their leadership by vote, regardless of status. This document, signed by all men, was the Mayflower Compact, acknowledged to be one of the bases of the Massachusetts Constitution, itself influential in the creation of the US Constitution.