Cleisthenes introduced an Assembly in Athens in 507 BCE, where members of an assembly voted on matters put before them by the Council.
Direct Democracy
direct democracy
The government in ancient Athens was an example of democracy. The Athenian government was the first democratic form of government recorded.
The Greeks are considered to be the ones to form the first democracy.
Democracy
democracy
Democracy
democracy
No, the first real reference to "Democracy" as a form of politics was done by Plato & Aristotle; Rome. Rome was also the first nation to practice a democracy, that is recorded in history: note that it is admitted that a Democracy was the standard form of small communities long before this, but it was not given a "form" or "Standard of practice" until the Roman times.
Monarchy
Ancient Greece is believed to have the first democracy. The city of Athens had a form of direct democracy where all eligible voters decided the issues.
Constitutional democracy is the form of democracy in the United States.