The Greek Democracy is often regarded as the fairest version of the system ever created.
All (male) citizens above the age of 20, were open to attend assembly. At assemply they would debate and vote on issues in much the way our congress does today.
From this pool the Council was selected *by lottery* of those citizens over the age of 30. Their job was preparing legislation and regulating the assembly. The lottery was held yearly and any citizen could hold council position only twice in their lives.
The Courts were executed from the same pool of those eligable for Council. The Jurors selected by drawing lots and they acted as the Judge as well.
The main constraint of this type of Democracy came with the size of nations. Such a system of rule would have been infeasable for Rome. But in the last 20 years, the world has become much smaller.
What do you think of the possibilitys? How would an American direct Democracy manifest itself?
2006-12-19
14:37:12
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I did not mean to imply that it should not include females, I was just being specific about how the Greeks ran things.
It was pretty typical for Government to be all male at that time, just like it it typical for developed nations to adopt Universal Sufferage.
2006-12-22
14:15:50 ·
update #1
I did not mean to imply that it should not include females, I was just being specific about how the Greeks ran things.
It was pretty typical for Government to be all male at that time, just like it it typical for developed nations to adopt Universal Sufferage.
2006-12-22
14:15:53 ·
update #2