Gerousia. This popular assembly is actually similar to the Athenian direct democracy; however‚ the power of Spartan assembly was very limited when compared to that of ancient democratic Athens. Sparta and Athens differ by that Sparta was more of an Oligarchy and Athens more of a
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The question being asked of us is if the US Constitution is still relevant in today’s world‚ and I do believe it is. The U.S constitution affects every single citizen living in the United States. The U.S constitution was written on September 17‚ 1787 and still is relevant to this day. The constitution was written more than one-hundred years ago but still effects the citizens every single day. Several reasons as to why I believe it is still relevant today is because the government works based off
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If we cannot say what we want‚ democracy cannot be true to its ideas of a government where the people get a voice‚ and it might as well be an oligarchy or dictatorship. Also‚ it is the building block to other freedoms. Without freedom of speech‚ there is no freedom of the press. Think about it. People need freedom of speech to say and write what they want to. Including giving reports on current
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Evolving Formal Organizations Sary Bo Axia College University of Phoenix We live in a world where there are many categories and labeling that we are subjected to. But depending on where we’re at in life‚ we can pretty much choose our own category. We can choose which social group we belong to. We can see which formal organization we have chosen to be in. These are all choices we can make on our own. There are many different social groups out there‚ as well as formal organizations. Formal
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Aristotle not only stresses the importance of law but also warns against the assignment of law as the absolute sovereign‚ since it could end up creating oligarchy or democracy‚ which in his respective interpretations are less virtuous forms of government. This is due to the facts that these unvirtuous regimes have the wrong political goals in mind. Oligarchy divides up people and devalue them based on wealth and as a result creates a wealth-based society‚ while democracy puts law at the risk of tyranny
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In Plato’s Republic‚ the protagonist Socrates provides three proofs that a just life is more satisfying than an unjust life. Of the three proofs‚ The third is the focus of our attention today. It states that “ when the entire soul follows the philosophophic part‚ there is no civil war in it‚ each part of it does its own work exclusively and is just‚ and in a particular it enjoys its own pleasures‚ the best and truest pleasures possible for it...but when one of the other parts gains control‚ it won’t
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Thomas Jefferson declares it to be a “self-evident truth” while George Mason speaks of the chase and obtain of happiness as a “natural endowment”. In this manner‚ gives a democratic view of the concept. Which lead to an open abhorrent of any kind of oligarchy towards what it should be had by mankind. Then we have John Locke‚ an English philosopher‚ who said that human “shouldn’t assume that suffering is our natural lot”. Also‚ that one should maximize one’s pleasure on Earth. Hence we acquire the belief
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Plato‚ student of Socrates‚ and Aristotle‚ student of Plato‚ two of the most influential philosophers to have ever walked the earth‚ take two completely different approaches whilst talking about the formation of city states and epistemology itself. Plato primarily defined the nature of things in theoretical terms through metaphysics‚ in contrast to actual terms. Thus by looking to the ’higher forms’ he aimed to explain the function of existing knowledge and understandings in the search for the ’absolute
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constitution in which the society is built upon. For democracy‚ it promotes equality for those who are equal‚ but only for those who are equal. Elaborating on this‚ equality only exists for the majority‚ who rules in this kind of polis. On the other hand‚ oligarchy focuses more on the distribution of office‚ in which there is equality for those who are unequal. (Curtis‚ 1981) However‚ this failed to consider the degree of goodness in a citizen. Oligarchs depended more on a wealthy upbringing‚ giving them superiority
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Democracy requires a set of arrangements through which each person’s preferences will have equal weight in taking the final decision. Otherwise the system which would prevail would have one person deciding dictatorship while the other may choose oligarchy. So in a democratic environment even the powerless people can have their voice heard. The ideals of democracy include better living‚ i.e. promotion of citizenship‚ development of education institutions so that the principles of democracy are
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