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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by pvarangot on Thursday November 22, 2012 @08:17PM (#4820630)
Millennia? You do realize democracy is a less-than-four-hundreds year old concept? At least in its modern sense, which I would like to think is the one you are referring to when speaking about women rights (i.e. "democracy" that abhors slavery/serfdom... those slave athenian woman definitely had no rights).
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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by 001sky on Thursday November 22, 2012 @09:17PM (#4820734)
You do realize democracy is a less-than-four-hundreds year old concept?

--Wait, WAT? In general, you confuse citizenship with democracy; and more particularly, you confuse a republic, with a democracy (the USA is the former, not the latter). Democracy is an ancient concept. Equally as old and well known are its many "problems", of which the ancients were well versed. The notion of a republic is an (historically) more sophisticated take on a democracy, and is well over two millenia old (Rome, etc).

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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by derleth on Thursday November 22, 2012 @10:38PM (#4820889)
> you confuse a republic, with a democracy (the USA is the former, not the latter)

The USA is a democratic republic.

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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by afterburner on Friday November 23, 2012 @12:02AM (#4821033)
Athenian democracy
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