Are We A Democracy? Or Are We A Republic?
Civics 101
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Democracy in Athens
Juliet Hooker is the Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University. In ancient Greece, men who had undergone mandatory military training were obliged to participate in an assembly where elected officials proposed laws and everybody voted by a show of hands. Roughly, only about 30% of the Athenian population could participate in the democratic process. About 2,000 years later, 55 men were debating how to design the system we used today.
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