Universal suffrage (or franchise) ensures the right to vote for as many people who are bound by a government’s laws as possible, as supported by the “one person, one vote” principle.
The Bill of Rights amendments add specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government’s power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people.
Today the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world.
This idea formed the basis of the new U.S. Constitution, which became the law of the land in 1789.
“What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world… it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history.”
Belize Town eventually became Belize City which now is the largest city in Belize and was once the capital of the former British Honduras.
San Marino’s constitution is the world’s oldest, having been first written in the year 1600.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dual state, a bi-confederation of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th- to 17th-century Europe.
Gustav Vasa fought for an independent Sweden, crushing an attempt to restore the Union of Kalmar and laying the foundation for modern Sweden
San Marino lays claim to being the oldest extant sovereign state in the world, as well as the oldest constitutional republic.
