First section in the Agreement was the right to vote, for all men over the age of twenty-one. Or almost all, “excepting servants, beggars and Royalists”.

This is huge. In Cromwell’s Parliament, the only people allowed to vote were those with what we’d today call a ‘net worth’ of two hundred pounds or more – a fantastic amount of money in those times. These days we’d call those people ‘the 1%’: so almost literally a government by the rich, for the rich, on behalf of the rich.

And boy, did it show. If it was bad in the seventeenth century, it got a lot worse in the eighteenth. A lot worse. ‘Rotten boroughs’ and all that – a quick web-search on that term was a real eye-opener for me about how corrupt the whole thing became. People literally buying seats in Parliament. Didn’t know that.

It didn’t even begin to get better until halfway through the next. In the so-called ‘reforms’ of 1848 – which only happened to stave off the kind of revolutions that were happening elsewhere in Europe that year – the number of electors clawed its way up to just six percent of adult males. Wow.

We don’t get anything resembling so-called ‘universal male suffrage’ – voting extended to most men – until something like the 1870s. For women, it’s pretty much another half-century again before they get any vote at all.

For most men, more than two hundred years of ‘taxation without representation’. For women, more like three hundred years. Yeah, that sounds like something worth having a revolution about.

But in Aunt Kat’s world, they bypassed all of that mess right from the start.