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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by hackuser on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:41PM (#9785905)
> The women's and civil rights movements went against the traditions of plenty of millennial old cultures such as the "Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs"[0] as well.

Don't forget that liberal madness about replacing monarchs with elected government!

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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by Roodgorf on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:55PM (#9786032)
The audacity! Europeans had feudalism for... as long as I can remember! Who do those colonists think they are?
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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by igravious on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:53PM (#9788219)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Comm...

1569–1795

"The Union possessed features unique among contemporary states. Its political system was characterized by strict checks upon monarchical power. These checks were enacted by a legislature (sejm) controlled by the nobility (szlachta). This idiosyncratic system was a precursor to modern concepts of democracy, constitutional monarchy, and federation."

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