England did have a Parliment and France had an Estates General before the 1600’s but it really wasnt until Cromwell overthrew the king and made Parliment ruler did it really stick, Before that the Monarch was more powerful and could disolve parliment
The Florentine states in Italy did have enlightend rules like the Medicis, but in the the The Medicis had the real power.
And a Republic is not exactly a Democracy