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The Origins of Majority Rule Democracy
Athenian democracy or democracy in the Athenian sense is composed of two code determining element of fuse together there is a decision-making apparatus and an enforcement mechanism. The structure of the enforcement mechanism which is 51 blokes with sticks beating 49 blokes over the head also determines the structure of the decision- making apparatus. This has gotten increasingly less and less quote-unquote democratic over time but this still sets its limits so you know what I will get Vladimir Putin if he fails to pay his mercenary contract leaving you stranded in Persian civil war.