Monday, November 30, 2009
An Athenian from 5th Century BCE
I think an Athenian from 5th Century BCE wouldn’t admire our new democracy. An Athenian wouldn’t like how we picked our president by the way we looked at him and the way we voted for him. Our process is really different from theirs. We are really strict on how we pick our president. We want him to be old enough, he needs to be born in U.S.A and he needs to be really well educated. An Athenian could have been a young common man over 18. He just needed to rule about trade and war. He didn’t have to focus on laws like we do now. I think an 18 year old man can’t rule over people trade and war. All this to an Athenian this will sound to strict and funny. Also the way they voted, is really interesting to us. They just wrote a name of who they want a leader to be and put it in to a vase.
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