By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Why wasn’t “Democracy” proclaimed in the Middle Ages? Why was it not even mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, or the American Constitution? Why did it have to wait for the late nineteenth century to be acknowledged by the politically obsessed, who took it as their means to power; and why did it wait a few more decades, to be made the commonplace of the power-hungry? Why has it – only since – advanced against every settled and mature arrangement of social order?