The Problem With the Athenians' Democracy

The philosophers struggle with it here's a picture I've sometimes been given by those who want to reconcile the language of predestination and human freedom. The early Christians like the Jews of the same period they looked around the world and saw that many countries had different systems of monarchy or whatever. They weren't terribly interested in how people came to power they were much more interested in what they did with power once they'd got it. In modern western democracies we think that voting democratically gives people a mandate to do what they want for the next term in office because they've now been voted so they have the right to do it then we have real difficulty holding them to account afterwards.