I too was thinking perhaps you need to reconsider the description 'the country that invented democracy'. 'Invention' suggestions development from scratch, rather than building on a number of pre-existing models and a great deal of theoretical discussion over the centuries, as well as some pretty half-baked experiments.
Still, kudos to the gentlemen of property sick of being badly micro-managed from a practically galactic distance, for their time, for putting into practice a pretty good model, which their successors eventually built on to include women, and former slaves. A pity, as you say, that it's still in doubt that that model is being properly applied across the board, where it suits some people to pervert or obstruct it for political gain.
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Date: 2004-09-18 03:40 am (UTC)Still, kudos to the gentlemen of property sick of being badly micro-managed from a practically galactic distance, for their time, for putting into practice a pretty good model, which their successors eventually built on to include women, and former slaves. A pity, as you say, that it's still in doubt that that model is being properly applied across the board, where it suits some people to pervert or obstruct it for political gain.