Which Nation is credited with the first democracy in the world?

Answer 1

Athens, Greece 508 B.C.

Answer 2

I think it was Greece.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greekdemocracy_01.shtml

Greek political systems
By the time of Aristotle (fourth century BC) there were hundreds of Greek democracies. Greece in those times was not a single political entity but rather a collection of some 1,500 separate poleis or 'cities' scattered round the Mediterranean and Black Sea shores 'like frogs around a pond', as Plato once charmingly put it. Those cities that were not democracies were either oligarchies - where power was in the hands of the few richest citizens - or monarchies, called 'tyrannies' in cases where the sole ruler had usurped power by force rather than inheritance. Of the democracies, the oldest, the most stable, the most long-lived, but also the most radical, was Athens.

Answer 3

Since you used the word 'Nation' and did not mention how liberal the democracy should be, the answer is England. The degree of participation of people was very limited and they were not allowed to fully savor the taste of the fruit.
But Democracy as we understand and want it to be today, was first implemented in USA.
If you take off the word "Nation', then democracy dates back to even before medieval ages. Various shades of it were practiced in political centres of Athens, Rome etc.

Answer 4

Sparta

The Spartan Constitution is most commonly dated to the early 7th century BC.

It is the first known constitution that vested the supreme power in the hands of an Assembly composed of all citizens.

Thus, Sparta was the first known functioning democracy—roughly 150 years before the introduction of democracy in Athens

Answer 5

Athenian democracy is the earliest well-documented democratic system, and the word democracy was coined in Ancient Greece in the 5th century BC. It appears that political rights were gradually expanded from a small group of landed aristocracy to eventually all eligible males at the age of 20. Political rights, or citizenship, were not granted to women, slaves, or metics. In theory, all the Athenian citizens were eligible to speak and vote in the Assembly, which set the laws of the city-state. In reality, many citizens who lived outside of the city (but rather in the surrounding villages) would have had a hard time attending Assembly sessions regularly. The Athenian democracy is considered today to have been a form of direct democracy, although Athens also had government offices, with officials mostly selected by sortition rather than election. Athenian democracy was effectively ended by the city's defeat by the Macedonians who abolished it in 323 BC.

The Athenian democracy (sometimes called classical democracy) was the democratic system developed in the Greek city-state of Athens (comprising the central city-state of Athens and its surrounding territory Attica). Athens was one of the very first known democracies, and probably the most important in ancient times. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most but not all following an Athenian model, but none were as powerful or as stable (or, relatively speaking, as well-documented) as that of Athens. It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy where the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open to all inhabitants of Attica, but the in-group of participants was constituted with no reference to economic class and they participated on a scale that was truly phenomenal. Never before had so many people spent so much of their time in governing themselves.

Answer 6

Traditionally it is athens greece.. but their democracy was not a true fully democracy... although it was closer than americas. Our democracy could only be called a limited democracy. In Athens, most males could vote on anything, although slaves, women and foreigners were excluded

Answer 7

I believe it is the ancient Greeks

Answer 8

the greeks