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Was Pitcairn Island first to write universal suffrage and compulsory education into law?

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Was Pitcairn Island first to write universal suffrage and compulsory education into law?

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Fascinating link. It looks like Pitcarin might be the record holder for universal suffrage including women. France first used universal (male) suffrage in 1792 but women were not given the vote till 1944! In 1869, Wyoming became the first US state to grant universal suffrage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#Notable_dates_for_universal_suffrage_in_the_world Regarding compulsory education, the Pitcarin Islanders weren’t even close to first. “The Talmud (tractate Bava Bathra 21a) praises the sage Joshua ben Gamla with the institution of formal Jewish education in the 1st century AD. Ben Gamla instituted schools in every town and made education compulsory from the age of 6 or 7.