GREEK DEMOCRACY
In that exercise you were asked to list the words from the text (p.
92) that are explicitly or implicitly connected to the keywords in
your book.
1.
EXPLICIT
-Government of the people by the people for the people (Abraham Lincoln) (=...
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GREEK DEMOCRACY
In that exercise you were asked to list the words from the text (p.
92) that are explicitly or implicitly connected to the keywords in
your book.
1.
EXPLICIT
-Government of the people by the people for the people (Abraham Lincoln) (= power, sens 4)
-Election (> to elect, to come to power, sens 4, to get, seize, take power)
2.
IMPLICIT
-“Citizens ; real citizens ; ( > citizenship = power, sens 7, is the basis of a nation’s institutions) Cf.
“Eligibility” (= required conditions to stand for elections); that is why the text mentions a “birth
criterion of double descent”: which was meant to guarantee your citizenship.
The first democratic governments are based on the principle of city-management.
POLIS > POLITICS
-“Democracies” (> democratic power, sens 3); “Representative democracy we choose politicians who
rule for us” (> executive power, and control of the executive power); “Direct democracy” (no “grands
électeurs”, no evidence of heritage required [ X suffrage ce
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