Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece
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Democracy

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

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• Democracy- government by the people.

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Government by the people means

• every citizen gets a vote.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Trivia

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

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• 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.

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• Any citizen was allowed to speak on any topic.
• If you spoke, but werent 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 didnt want to do bad things for fear
  they would be

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