Athenian democracy

Imagine a world where our leaders were picked from random draw. That's exactly what the Athenians did! The Athenians believed campaigning,which the United States currently uses to help candidates convince the citizens to vote for them as their representative,could be biased by the rich and famous. There are a multitude of reasons why the United States republic differs from the Athenian democracy,despite the differences they are also astoundingly similar. These differences lead to the distinction

Government was a form of order among both the Athenian Democracy and the Roman Republic. It lead to a simple unification as a whole, causing their separate civilizations to prosper. It allowed the citizens to become a part of leadership that wasn’t so enforced from the beginning of civilization. Through agreements as a society joined together, they established firm laws and developed different systems that each reaped their own benefits. Each had similar yet contrasting outcomes through organization

The Greek word ‘Demos’ is commonly interpreted by modern minds as meaning simply ‘people’, as ‘Kratos’ means ‘rule of’, giving us democracy, the rule of the people. This is a nice easy way to understand a word that is used commonly today but it is also an oversimplification of a word that meant something different to the Ancient Greek’s themselves. Meanings of ‘Demos’ Blackwell (Jan. 2003a) handily gives us our three meanings of Demos as “the local village, the population generally, and the assembly

The evolution of the Athenian, Roman, and U.S democracies started in ancient civilizations over 3,000 years ago. The U.S system of government has undergone changes through the past years, the U.S system is still in use. Athenian and Roman democracy's were both in the same time period, but share some big differences between them. These three different systems of government went through changes in many ways. During the ancient Athenian democracy, everyone voted on everything and held power by only

Central Historical Question Was ancient Athens truly democratic? Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. I believe that ancient Athens supported the early stages and development of democracy. Ancient Athens contributed many thoughts, and ideas to help form the idea of a democracy.(Doc A & B) Some of these ideas and thoughts where our constitution favors the many instead of the few, social class

Democracy has been a huge focal point for success especially in the west with countries like America, but sometimes we can see a democracy turn corrupt. This essay will be centered around the pros and cons of democracy and its roles within the ancient Greek world that helped catapult Athens into one of the world’s greatest metropolitan cities to ever exist. The success in democracy started after the Athenians defeated the Persian armies lead by Darius, and later by Xerxes. These victories were capitalized

Essay #2 Athenian Democracy & American Democracy Differences The differences between American Democracy and Athenian Democracy are very noticeable and cannot be repudiated. Although American Democracy stems from Athenian Democracy, it has branched out and become totally different from the way Athens was run and governed. From the way each democracy’s branches are set up to who votes and how it is counted both have very unrelated systems. Athenian Democracy vs. American Democracy: Athenian Democracy

Democracies have always leaned naturally towards smaller groups of individuals, as governing democratically becomes increasingly more difficult as feelings of unity go incrementally sparse the large a community becomes. Forms of rule such as monarchy and oligarchy flourish more in urban communities with a concentrated large population as it feels increasingly natural to remove filters or layers on what the ruling class wants done on basis of convenience. The first formal democracy originated in Athens

opposed the concept of democracy. In fact he ‘ranks both timocracy and oligarchy as favourable to democracy and maintains that only tyranny is a less preferable form of government’ (Plato 1955 ). John Wild believed “The most serious charge against Plato from a modern point of view is that he is an enemy of democracy.” (Thorson 1963) In his book “the republic” he describes what he perceives to be the ideal state, in so doing he lays out his criticisms of the Athenian democracy. His criticisms are as

in the Athenian government was more democratic, than the Roman Republic. In Athens, the first 6000 male citizens voted for their elected officials. Athen’s voting system is truly democratic because the male citizens voted on roles in the government, and sign up for roles. In Rome, all full male citizens could vote, while leaving out the other two types of citizenship that cannot vote2. Only having full citizens is less democratic because the other two citizens could not vote. The Athenian Democracy