Ancient Athens As An Example Of Athenian Democracy

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Athenian Democracy I believe that ancient Athens was truly democratic. Ancient Athens was democratic because Athens would give power to the people. when it would be time to vote, many of the candidates rely on the support of the people. Most candidates would share the power with the people and others would become tyrants, a person who takes all the power to themselves.

Ancient Athens would give equal justice to those that could vote. Those that could vote would have equal justice. Those that couldn’t vote such as woman, slaves, and foreigners did not have equal justice like other places. In ancient Athens men would be the only ones who could vote and they only make up 12% of the population.

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