Athenian Democracy

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This paper looks at the current Greek political and democratic system and compares these institutions to those of Ancient Greece. The paper analyzes the judicial, parliamentary and democratic system. The influence of the ancient politicians and leaders such as Aristotle and Plato is examined.

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"The Framers of the Constitution of the United States were greatly, and correctly so, influenced by the Greeks of Ancient Athens. Many of the ideas and thoughts that of the Ancient Athenians were used as a model for their Classical Democracy as an outline for our government today in the United States. Despite the similarities of these two countries political systems the differences are astonishing. When the Athenians wanted a so-called democracy they did not intend it to be a Representative Democracy, as we have today, but a direct democracy as they had. Despite Athens having thought of themselves as the founders of a pure democracy there is an error in their reasoning. In our everyday society, we forget how much we should appreciate our type of Democracy and not the Classical Democracy as the Ancient Athenians had."

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