He said the island had undergone some radical changes in recent years, including the bringing in of a democratic system of government to replace the previous feudal system.

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In 1951 the political system was a feudal theocracy.

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Shirley Carre was a social anthropologist from Rochester, New York, who came over from the US in the 1960s to study Sark's feudal system.

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