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There are many nations where a major, predominating religion, constricts the rights of women. In such nations, men dominate the government and hold high positions in the religious structure of the nation.
Most aristocrats continued to hold most government offices because only the wealthy could afford tutors, books, and study time needed to prepare for the exams.
True. *The Portuguese were the first to reach China (soon after 1500) by following the route of the Arab merchants from India to the southern ports. The early Portuguese traders, who were half-pirate, fortified their trading stations and treated the Chinese as if they were a conquered people. They made so much trouble that the Chinese government drove them out. Later, in 1557, they were allowed to lease a strip of the seacoast at Macao, which they were able to hold permanently * TheGraceAcademy.org
As far as I know; As Long As We KEEP Them In.... Every four years, we hold a Federal Election to decide our leaders. (unless of course the opposition tries to bring the government down with a non confidence vote) :=(
A democratic form of government was not part of Lenin's plan. Lenin never intended for the new government to be a democratic government, that is, open to all citizens. He believed that it was necessary to keep government in the hands of a small group of like-minded people so that the gains made by the revolution would not be lost. That meant that only members of the Bolshevik Party were going to be allowed to hold high offices in it and the Bolshevik, later Communist, Party would never lose control of the government no matter what the people of Russia wanted. Freedom to oppose his policies was not to be allowed either.