What you talked about while quoting that text has nothing to do with the text itself. I'm talking about government systems, not the way minorities are treated. Governments systems are things like communism, dictatorship, democracy, etc. etc. in general, and the shades of grey in between. Well, not this absolute really, but even how the system would work internally.
You speak of a women's right to vote? That is but a small change. It's a change in ideology, allright, but no big change in the system. It's not of the same calibre as the change of the levy-electorate system (or however you call the system where the richer people get more votes in english) to the general vote of right. It might seem as a big change, too, but in the end it isn't; since the system itself didn't change, then.
Also, you can't say these changes happened willingly. There was turmoil in both cases. It might not have been as bad as in other countries, but there still was turmoil. Because if there wouldn't have been, these changes wouldn't have been made. Well, actually, there is a small change they would have, because the 'no taxation without representation' principle had already been more or less accepted back then, after centuries of fighting for that right.
So anyway, I see where you're coming from, but you should read what I write better before criticising the little, tiny details with little, tiny insignificant things.
