He famously responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." Since then, our Constitution has been and remains the gold standard for democracies around the world because of our decentralized government.

Read Part One In Part One, I chronicled examples of failings of democracy in ancient Greece, the “birthplace of democracy”. I related how Socrates was condemned to death by a majority vote of the ...

They all criticized Athenian democracy, and how it contributed to Athens losing that war. Born 20 years after the war, Aristotle (considered by many to be the ‘father of political philosophy’) was not ...

The Athenian opened a few months ago in the historic Stevens Thomas House, a Greek columned house built in 1846-49 by a man who became a prominent Athens banker in the 19th century.

Athenian Grill owner Ilias Pappas said he’s switching his plan for a new restaurant to open a larger version of his popular Athenian Grill instead. Janet Patton [email protected] ...

I n the recent past, our constitutional courts have embraced the polysemous concept of “constitutional morality” as a tool to interpret and as a test to adjudicate upon the constitutional ...

The Constitution of India represents a living framework that transcends its textual boundaries, holding the aspirations, struggles, and collective dreams of a diverse nation ...

However, some scholars also expressed positive attitudes towards this project. lIya Matveev called the draft of a newRussian constitution “a hybrid of Athenian democracy and the Roman republic”. He ...

The Athenian historian Xenophon praised Lycurgus, the mythical figure credited with introducing the Spartan constitution, because he had forbidden Spartan citizens to engage in artisanal ...

Democracy—the word itself means “people (demos) power (kratos)”—originated in late sixth-century Athens through the reforms of Cleisthenes. The Athenian popular leader transferred political power from ...

According to Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution, Athens was ruled by a board of Archons comprised of King Archon, (basileus), the polemarch – the commander in chief and Archon eponymous, whose name was ...