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Ancient Greece

Democracy Ancient Greece (Athens) was the birthplace of democracy.

Democracy- government by the people.

Government by the people means… every citizen gets a vote.

What is a citizen? In ancient Greece a citizen was any free person who was born in a city-state. Men and women were citizens. Only men could vote.

Ancient Grecians had a direct democracy.

In a direct democracy people vote to make their own rules and laws.

Greek Legislature Every male over 30 citizen was a member of the Legislature. The Legislature made laws for the city state. Every male person got to vote on every law.

Greek Council The legislature elected Council members. You had to be a landowner to be elected to Council. Anything voted on by the Legislature had to be approved by the Council first.

Judges A person had to go through a year of testing to be a judge. Once a person passed the testing, he became a judge for life.

Trivia The city state of Athens had the most famous direct democracy. Other city states patterned their governments after Athens.

The legislature passed laws. The legislature decided on wars. The legislature made economic policy. The legislature elected Council members. The legislature met 40 times each year.

Any citizen was allowed to speak on any topic. If you spoke, but weren ’ t knowledgeable about the topic, you would be laughed out of the Assembly. Any citizen could tell stories about any other citizen in the legislature. People didn ’ t want to do bad things for fear they would be

Votes could be taken by show of hands or by balloting. People who wanted to be Council members might lie about owning land.