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Direct democracy doesn’t need representatives. The decisions are made by the people and when a budget or law is proposed, the idea goes to the people. Large governments rarely use this decision.
A representative democracy is where people need representatives to represent them in government.
The Ekklesia is an assembly of the citizens.
Citizens of age and are male can attend and women, metics, and slaves cannot. People attending is limited to 6000.
They meet every 10 days.
It is not really fair as non-citizens both men and women don’t get to participate and express their ideas.
Citizens that complete military training as male citizens can attend Assembly.
The Council of 500 works like the Assembly and the Court. Council runs the daily affairs of the city.
Each chariman or leader had 24 hours in their positions. And people in council can only serve 2 times.
They meet everyday.
Not fair because of lottery system.
The Council is chosen by a lottery system that chooses men.
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Equity in their democracy was not equity as democracy had a requirement for government participation. You had to be a male citizen that completed their service in the military. And no metics and slaves were allowed. Fairness was not very fair. Women could not leave without accompanies. They had to do house chores and take care of the children.
The fairness in their democracy was decent. In court, people had limited time to talk so everyone can talk at the same amount of time.
Their fairness is way better than equity so they can improve more by giving women, slaves, and metics more opportunities in government and civil jobs.
A tyrant is a powerful king/leader. They have a lot of money and power. When the people got tired of tyrants controlling them, they overthrew the tyrants and came democracy. Democracy back in Ancient Greece was a direct democracy.
Citizens were people made of men and women that are born in Athens from Athenian parents. The male citizens had way more freedom than female citizens.
Metics were people living outside of a polis in Greece who had some privileges of the citizens.
Slaves were prisoners who got captured in war or raids.
If women wanted to take people to court, a man would have to represent the woman in court. Some people get professional speech writers to write speeches. People took other people to court if they wanted to.
They had a sand timer so people had a limited time to speak.
When ever. But juries are picked before the trial so no bribery.
Jurors are chosen by lottery. So it wasn't really fair.
Defendant and plaintiff, jurors.
In Athens, you had to finish military service as a male to become a citizen and earn citizenship. You had to be above the age of 20.
For women in Athens, you are automatically a citizen when you complete school.
Men and women had to be citizens. They cannot be metics or slaves but in rare occasions, they are granted citizenship.
Life for men in Athens is better than women. Men serve the military. They have way more freedom than women. Boys in their early years go to school and they go to military training after.
Women in Athens are housewives and they help around the house of chores. Girls have to attend school and at the young age of 15, their family chooses the husband for her. Then, the girl has to learn about housewife skills.
A city state or a polis is an independent town/city. In Ancient Greece, the Polis’ would have their own citizens, government, and way of governance. Some very well known city-states are Athens, Olympia, and Sparta.
Sparta is a bit cruel but better than Athens at the same time. In Sparta, women had more freedom than women in Athens. But the harsh military system required boys to go to military training at the age of 7 and complete 23 years of services. After service, they can participate in government.
Athens, women have not much freedom and the men had a lot of freedom. I would say that Sparta is better than Athens but Athens democracy is better than Sparta’s way of governance.
Socrates was an important game changer to Athenian democracy. He didn’t hate democracy, he hated the lottery system. He believed that the lottery system chooses people that may not know what they are doing. He told his ideas to the youth. But one day, he got taken to court and was guilty. He died of a death sentence of poison.
In Athenian Democracy, citizens had to be 18, born in Athens and gave birth by two Athenian parents. Laws are voted by the citizens. Leaders are also chosen by the lottery system. There is an executive branch made of 500 men in a council. Juries vary in size, and no attorneys as they are one day trials with no appeal.
In Canadian Democracy, citizens had to be born in Canada and or complete the citizenship process. Representatives elected to propose laws and vote. Elected leaders/prime minister. Executive branch is made of appointed and elected officials. Defendants and plaintiffs, they have attorneys, you can appeal.
I think single member plurality is better, I think single member plurality is best because whoever gets more votes wins and that is fair (in my opinion).
The political power was exercised by the citizens, there were three branches in government, the legislative branch passes the laws, executive branch carries out laws, judicial branch conducts the trials.
Ancient Athenian Government used direct democracy, they used lottery system to pick leaders, you had to be above 18 and a male to be a citizen, executive branch is composed of 500 instead of a couple of people, there are no attorneys to help you and they are one day trials so you can't appeal.
I would choose representative democracy as we have representatives to represent a district and go to assembly to address our ideas and concerns. I would only choose direct democracy when representatives can't decide and they let citizens vote on them.
Pericles was a statesman. “We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here [in Athens] at all.” Under his leadership, the Athenian Empire died. Then, he made Athens the cultural centre of Greece. Pericles was an Athenian statesman. He was a prominent orator. He dominated Athenian life for over 20 years from 450 BCE to 430 BCE. The historians call this the Age of Pericles. He was an important man to the Athenian government because he introduced a law that required the government to pay the people the amount of money people spent. So poor people can do stuff better. He also took on an important position. He served in the army as a General.
