But despite the way we often talk about it, the Constitution was not actually chiseled on stone tablets. “The framers were not philosophers searching for a description of an ideal system ...

'History repeats itself, it's cyclical.' Hellenic Museum to consider voter suppression In 451 BC, Pericles disenfranchised a quarter of Athenian citizens. Raising the case now is not a coincidence.

But the best known version of the ancient Athenian Constitution was written by one man (Solon, the lawgiver); was never voted upon after its announcement; and was proclaimed (by the lawgiver) to ...

the Athenian citizen, as such, acquired definite rights and new protection in law even on territory which was not that of his tribe. The first step had been taken towards undermining the gentile ...

What the Founding Fathers got wrong about democracy Want to reverse America's democratic decline? Look to Athens.

After ruling for only four months the Four Hundred were deposed and their power transferred to a larger body of five thousand, whose task was to redraft the Athenian constitution.

Historians trace the idea of “equality before the law” to the magistrate Cleisthenes, whose democratic reforms to the Athenian constitution in 509 BCE ended tyrannical and aristocratic rule.

Inexplicably, Constitution Day does not get the recognition it deserves. Sept. 17 commemorates the date when one of the most important documents ever was written. The significance of the ...

After ruling for only four months the Four Hundred were deposed and their power transferred to a larger body of five thousand whose task was to redraft the Athenian constitution.