The Athens were mostly associated with the birth of democracy in 460 BCE. The assembly was a body with male citizens 18 or older, who can speak and vote in the assembly. They met once, or twice a month. The leader would pay people to attend the assembly to encourage people to attend. It would also away to get people who couldn’t take off work to come. There were 3,000 people who attend the assembly, and 100 of those were wealthy, influential, and the best speaker. Dominating the assembly and private conspiratorial political meetings. One thing some people were afraid that the popular leaders would get self involved, and were easily swayed, like their last rulers.
