Greek Politics
At the foundation of the widely differing systems devised by democratic peoples, there is
one essential conviction, expressed in the word democracy itself: that power should be in the hands of the people. Although democracy today has been slightly inefficient in this idea, with the wealthy, elite class challenging this right, "it nevertheless claims for itself a fundamental validity that no other kind of society sharesÂ…." To completely understand the structure of democracy, one must return to the roots of the practice itself, and examine the origins in ancient Greece, the expansion in the Roman Empire, and how these practices combined make what we recognize as today's democratic government.
Democracy began with the Greeks in the various city-states. Political thought also began in Greece. The "calm and clear rationalism of the Greek mind" started this way of thinking. Rather than focusing on the religious sphere, the Greeks chose to concentrate on the self and all things......
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