Ti-pite gave us an excellent description of the French form of absolute monarchy which crippled France until the French Revolution and New France until the British conquest.  Unlike the French absolute monarchy, the British monarchy has been subordinated to the British Parliament since 1689.  Ti-pite also seems to ignore that it was British militants who spearheaded the movement to abolish slavery (Wilberforce) and that freedom of the press was first recognized in Britain in 1771 years before France finaly did in 1881.  Here in Canada, the first provinces to recognize women the right to vote were Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in 1918; meanwhile the women of Québec had to wait until 1940 to earn the right to vote in provincial élections.  Back to glorious France, it finally granted women's right to vote in 1945, more than 10 years after Turkey....