Did both Athens and Sparta have elections that let all citizens vote?
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No Athens was the only democracy in the Greek city-states but even it was not a democracy at first.
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Ancient Greece--specifically Athens
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Actually i believe it is Ancient Greece is given the title of the foundation of modern democracy; Ancient Rome, if you are referring to Caesar (was a king)Kings are not elected they assume power usually in succession through bloodline or by hostile take over.
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All American states are democratic. Some have democratically elected Republican leaders and others have democratically elected Democrat leaders.
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Supposedly the citizens of the USA, but we really only vote for the electoral college. The Electors are under no obligation to vote the way the people voted. That's democracy for you.
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yes.  everyone had the same opportunity to return to vote.
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there is the democratic republic - which the USA has.  They elect people to legislate on their behalf - and elect the leader as well.\n\nThere is the democratic monarchy - which the UK and others have.  It still elects those to legislate for them - but the leader is there by birthright (there are still a couple where the monarch is not just a figure head).\n\nThere is plain democracy, which does not exist to my knowledge anymore, it was in ancient Greece, where there was no real "leader" and that while there was a senate to deal with certain issues, one person = one vote on main issues.\n\nI suppose you could also include the democratic dictatorship where there is "an election" every so many years and surprisingly the "leader" keeps getting re-elected. basically one person = no vote.\n\nThere was the attempt at democratic socialism, but am not sure as much about that.
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Yes, it is.  (It's also a republic, capitalist, etc.)  It's not a "direct" democracy in the sense of submitting everything to a direct vote of the people, but the people do have ultimate power.  As a practical matter, the people frequently don't exercise the power they have -- they often don't bother voting, or don't educate themselves on issues -- but the power is there if they choose.
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Yes.  It is possible for the winner of an election to get as little as 39% of the vote, and carry the electoral college.  This happens when the winner wins by only a handful of votes in states he or she wins, and losing completely in all other states.\nThis is caused by the lack of proportional voting in states.  A states electoral votes, with exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, either go all to one candidate or the other.  If half the state votes one way, and half the other, the smaller half is effectively not counted.  With proportional voting, or district-level voting, this remains true, but it can only affect one vote per state, and is as likely to fall one way as the other.\nI hope this answered your question.
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from the Greek 'polis,' which was the place where the political occured, around the polis: a point, or a marker, in the middle of the city.  of course, in ancient Greece, the only people who were political were Greek men with money and land.  Women and the poor and the crazy and Non-Greeks were 'apolis,' outside of the political, and had no voice.  You can see holdovers from this today.
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athens - types of government in order of history:\n\n- rule by king\n- rule by oligarchy (the rule of the archons)\n- rule of solon (benevolent dictator governing by the will of the people)\n- rule by class-based assemblies (set up by solon - there were 4 levels, arranged by class, each had an assembly and governed certain affairs)\n- the tyranny of Peisistratus & Hippias (after Solon's death and a period of transition toward anarchy)\n- The conquering of athena by sparta\n- the appointment of a spartan-picked athenian council.\n- the rebellions of the council\n- the second invasion by sparta - repelled by athens\n- the rule of Cleisthenes - where most of what you think of as "democracy" came in to play.\n\nAll free men living in Athens and Attica (the area surrounding Athens) were classified as "citizens".  Cleisthenes established a council which would be the chief arm of government with all executive and administrative control. Every citizen over the age of thirty was eligible to sit on this council; each year the members of the council would be chosen by lot. The Assembly, which included all male citizens, was allowed to veto any of the council's proposals and was the only branch of government that could declare war. In 487, long after Cleisthenes, the Athenians added the final aspect of Athenian democracy proper: ostracism. The Assembly could vote (voting was done on potsherds called ostra ) on expelling citizens from the state for a period of ten years. This ostracism would guarantee that individuals who were contemplating seizing power would be removed from the country before they got too powerful.\n\n\nA decision by a jury commonly refers to a court case.  In civil matters the majority of the jury must be in agreement as to a verdict.  In a criminal matter they must be unanimous (all) in agreement as to the verdict.\n\nAs a tidbit - athenian juries were typically composed of 400-500 individuals and decided based on majority votes (sometimes 50% +1...sometimes 3/5, sometimes other ratios)  and...if you brought suit against another and then failed to meet a minimum threshold (usually 2/5 of the votes) then you were automatically guilty of false prosecution.  substaintial fines ensued  :)\n\nand - athenian juries only had the options of: fine, jail confinement, banishment (loss of citizenship) and death.  The prosecution could propose one punishment, the defense another.  prosectutors almost always urged death so that the defendant would self-select an appropriately stiff punishment as an offering. (usually a large fine).
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The definition of a democracy, in its most basic form, is a government of the people, meaning the people make the decisions.\n\nIn Athens, the people who were included were free men of 18 or older. Slaves and women were not allowed to vote. The men gathered together and everyone was allowed to speak his mind on an issue. After everyone who wanted a say had had time to speak his mind, the entire group voted on the issue at hand.\n\nModern democracies tend to be representative democracies. Both men and women are allowed to vote after they reach the age of 18. Usually, they vote for representatives who represent them and speak for them at government meetings. There are a few isolated small towns in the US that still practice the older form of democracy. They hold town meetings and everyone who wants to speak gets a chance, and then they vote on the issue at hand. But for the most part, in a modern democracy, decisions are made by representatives. At the local level (state, county and city) people often vote directly for an issue that has been proposed by representatives, such as tax levies for schools or roads, amendments to state constitutions, etc. But issues at a national level are decided by elected representatives.\n\nTo sum up, the biggest difference between the two kinds of democracy is that the Athenian democracy was a direct democracy, where each individual was allowed their say and voted directly on the issue. Modern democracies are representative democracies, where the people vote for a representative who speaks and votes for them when it comes time to decide an issue.
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it is usually volunteers from both main parties.  Electioneering and campaigning is illegal within 100 feet of polling places.
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There is no country that is a pure democracy, meaning every citizen votes for literally every decision. The only place I can think of small enough for this to be practical is Liechtenstein, and they have a constiutional monarchy like Britain. The logistical nightmares of a pure democracy are too difficult to overcome once you get to be the size of even the smallest of nations.\n\nAthens did have a pure democracy in that every citizen was granted the right to vote in the assembly; however, only land-owning men were citizens.
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The concept of Democracy was started by the Greeks.
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The earliest recorded history of direct democrcay would be the one practiced by the Greeks. They would all asemble at the market place and would discuss and would vote on matters of state but as the population grow, it became evident that there would not only be logical concerns but peace and order as well. And so representative democracy was born.\n\nImagine in the US if every bill that will be passed, the entire US population would go to debate how the bill will be phrased, worded, revised and voted. Even the country you mentioned is no longer near the pure democracy espoused by the Greeks because someone crafts the bill before tossing it to the population for the vote.\n\nIn the end, a look at US Constitution would tell us that there is still traces of direct democracy in the U.S. During the last midterm election, we have seen states voting for different referendums and ammendments. Californias exercised direct democracy by calling for a re-call. And amendments were added to the US Consitution through direct democracy.
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greece\n\ncoz, democracy is a greek word !! :-)