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He may not have been near liars, cheats, thieves, & egomaniacs.
Ostracism appears to first have been used by the Athenian democracy.
There are three nouns and a proper adjective. Thomas Hooker, father, and democracy are nouns. American here is an adjective, although it can be a noun.
The main criticism of ancient Athenian democracy is the limitations Athenian law placed upon who could be considered a citizen. The only Athenians who were considered full citizens were Athens-born men of at least 18 years of age. And to be considered Athens-born, both of one's parents had to have been citizens. But while women could be considered citizens, they had no voice in the Assembly, and no real rights within the democracy. Furthermore, slaves had no voice whatsoever in the Athenian democracy.
Democracy is thought to have first been practiced in ancient Athens, in Greece This would have been during the 6th century BCE, although there are claims that civilizations in Egypt may have practiced it prior.
A representative democracy is the type of government that was most heavily influenced by the Athenian system. The difference being that only free Athenian men were represented. At the time, the other city-states were unlikely to follow Athens' lead unless they were members of the Delian League headed by Athens. These city-states had been turned into an empire of Athens and were under pressure to follow the democratic way. Modern democracies differ from the Athenian direct democracy model, which was only practicable in a community where citizens could walk into the city for the fortnightly meetings. The large size of countries today preclude this, so a representative democracy model s used, where parliamentarians do the decision-making with little reference to the wishes of the electors, which is quite different from the citizens themselves making the decisions in Athens.
voting was created in the before the 1600. In the 1686 though, the English bill of rights made all the difference when it said that parliamentary elections were to be free.
He has sometimes been called the father of Expressionism.
The term democracy first appeared in ancient greek political and philosophical thought. The philosopher Plato contrasted democracy, the system of "rule by the governed", with the alternative systems of monarchy (rule by one individual), oligarchy (rule by a small élite class) and timocracy.[21] Although Athenian democracy is today considered by many to have been a form of direct democracy, originally it had two distinguishing features: firstly the allotment (selection by lot) of ordinary citizens to government offices and courts,[22] and secondarily the assembly of all the citizens. All the male Athenian citizens were eligible to speak and vote in the Assembly, which set the laws of the city-state; citizenship was not granted to women, or slaves. Of the 250,000 inhabitants only some 30,000 on average were citizens. Of those 30,000 perhaps 5,000 might regularly attend one or more meetings of the popular Assembly. Most of the officers and magistrates of Athenian government were allotted; only the generals (strategoi) and a few other officers were elected
Many philosophers have been credited as the father of political science.
The first appearance of democracy is often said to have been in Athens in Ancient Greece. However one should be aware that there are very great differences on what was considered democracy in Athens and what is considered as democracy today (just as there is a rather large differences between modern democracies). For example only men could vote and these men had to be landowners as well as sons of two athenian parents.
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