<Li> 1820: First Cortes Gerais in Portugal under a Constitutional Charter . </Li> <Li> 1835 Serbia's first modern constitution </Li> <Li> 1848: Universal male suffrage was definitely established in France in March of that year, in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848 . </Li> <Li> 1848: Following the French, the Revolutions of 1848, although in many instances forcefully put down, did result in democratic constitutions in some other European countries, among them Denmark and Netherlands . </Li>

Most important political institution in a democratic country