between the Greek concept of democracy and present day representative democracy? The Greece word ’demokratia’‚ which means ’governement by the people’‚ was first used by the Greece to show their political system. Back to the 5th century BC of the classical Greece period to the modern 21st century‚ over such a long period of time‚ threre are still some similarities bewteen the Athenian democracy and our present democracy. Like our modern voting districts‚ the Athenian country was divided into separated
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Prospects For Democracy “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule‚ where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember‚ democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes‚ exhausts‚ and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” It is the year 2010. Democracy has become so successful that countries who ’ve enjoyed it are trying to share
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While democracy in ancient Greece may not have survived in it’s original‚ non-representative state‚ it has still left a lasting impact on modern day democratic society. Athens was the birthplace of democracy‚ being the first place to adopt it as it’s political system. Athens having been the great economic power it was‚ showed the world that a government where the people hold equal power to each other‚ can work‚ that a small group of ruling elite isn’t necessary. Even after the fall of athenian power
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I compared Athenian democracy and American democracy. Now although many may in fact say that the American democracy is the best‚ many do not know that America government is a derivative from Athens very own government. The city-state of Athens and surrounding territory of Attica was the first government to have a true democracy. Although America did derive its government from Athens‚ Athens is not a representative democracy ‚ it is a direct democracy. The set up of Athenian democracy and American
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government are modeled after three parts of Athenian democracy. Athenian democracy implemented three institutions that ran their government. While Athenian democracy was made up of the Ekklesia‚ the Boule‚ and Dikasteria‚ American democracy is made up of the Executive‚ Legislative‚ and Judicial branch. There is a close resemblance in the Legislative and Judicial branches of American democracy and the Ekklesia‚ the Boule‚ and Dikasteria institutions of Athenian democracy. The United States House of Representatives
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507 B.C.‚ the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a system of political reforms that he called demokratia‚ or rule by the people. Which is modern day Democracy meaning the rule of the people. That is where each person votes about what they would like to happen. Whatever has the most votes wins‚ obviously. There is no king or dictator to say no to one’s vote. One problem that immediately comes up in a democracy is who is going to be able to vote. Can anyone vote? Should there be an age limit? Do
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Introduction The birth of democracy in Sparta and Athens was a long‚ painful journey‚ created by wars‚ cruel leaders‚ and heroic figures. Although many of democracy’s ideas came from Athenian government‚ it was very different from the democracy in the United States‚ for example. In general‚ wealthy aristocrats had the most power. But without the ideas that this time period created‚ who knows where we would be now. In this paper‚ I’m going to outline how democracy came to be in early Athenian and Spartan governments
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The Athenian democracy in the Golden Age functioned somewhat like ours does today. Athenian countryside was divided into areas called demes. In each of these demes‚ registers they kept track of which citizens were eligible to attend the assembly and vote on laws and public policies. Each Deme was then grouped into 10 tribes for other political functions‚ such as choosing representatives for the council of five hundred citizens. The number of representatives chosen from each deme was proportional
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Athens Democracy The first person to define democracy was an Athenian leader called Cleisthenes. He called it Demokratia‚ which meant rule by people. In their democracy‚ only male citizens who were older than eighteen could participate. Demokratia gave a strong structure to the Athenian government‚ which served as a model for future governments in the world. The Demokratia had three main institutions. The first one is the Ekklesia‚ which is an assembly in which all qualified citizens could participate
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structures of these two city-states. Athens would become the first democracy that humans would create‚ while Sparta would sacrifice stature and power to maintain the restrictive government and institutional forms needed to prop up their warrior culture. Athenian citizens were counted as all free‚ native-born males over the age of 20. Women‚ foreigners‚ and slaves were excluded from political power and input. The main body of Athenian government was the Assembly‚ which consisted of all of the citizens
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