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Essay Archive - America: The Modern Day Athens
America: The Modern Day Athens
"We do not copy our Ancestors, but are an example to them. It is true we
are called a Democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and
not in the few. " This is the foundation for which democracy is ruled. Without
this democracy does not exist. In this essay there will be comparisons of
Athenian democracy and our modern day democracy
Greece, in ancient times, was not a united land. There existed many little
provinces of control, called city-states. Two examples of the more powerful and
lasting city-states were Sparta and Athens. Sparta, whose people lived an
auster....
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