Differentiate between the old and modern demo
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There are similarities and differences between Athenian democracy and modern democracy. One similarity deals with the government. In a democracy, the citizens make decisions. ... A difference between the democracy of Athens and our democracy today is that in Athens the people directly made the laws themselves.
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The life and strength of the old Democratic party was its national spirit. From its earliest history this never failed to assert itself clearly, fervently, we may say, indeed, fiercely, on every question involving the preservation, or the enlargement, or the honor and glory of the country. In our great controversies with England, with France, with Mexico, it was peculiarly the war party. In every minor dispute with other nations, it was always the party most, apt to plant itself on high pretentions and extreme claims. In our domestic affairs it was the party that always labored most earnestly to put down sectional discord, and to strengthen the bonds of the Union.
It did not always work wisely. In many things it committed most flagrant errors. In the latter years especially it was betrayed by Southern acts and Southern threats into great follies and wrongs. Yet this old traditional character for high nationality still kept it strong in the good-will of the people.
Had it gone into this war against Southern rebellion with the same whole-souled, unflinching national spirit that distinguished it in other wars, and maintained that spirit firmly till the old flag waved in triumph, it would to-day be stronger than ever, and have the assurance of a grand future. But the fact that it has proved derelict, not to say positively recreant, in the supreme crisis of the nation -- that it has become so degenerate as to cower and sink in a war which involved the very life of the nation, when it had been so indomitable in other wars which only touched the nation's pride or material interests -- that, instead of seeking, as of old, to vindicate the supremacy of the constitution, it has gone for making terms with the most malignant and foulest of all possible rebellions against that constitution, is a fact before which all of its old credit gives way to contempt, irredeemably and fatally.
The Democratic party has lost its vital principle. As a political organization its day has gone forever. It must share the fate which for the same cause in a milder form overtook the old Federal party. Its elements will gather about new issues, and take a new form, which, in the mighty developments of this new era of the republic, it is impossible yet to determine. The memory of the old party will remain only as a perpetual warning against unfaithfulness to the country in its day of need.
THE SEVEN-THIRTY LOAN. -- Less than $170,000,000 worth of the pending series of the national 7-30 Loan remains to be marketed. The daily sales of the loan this last week have been enormous, having averaged $6,245,740, (as against a daily average of $4,238,233 last week, and of $3,054,140 the preceding week,) as follows: Monday, $5,175,590; Tuesday, $5,231,100; Wednesday, $7,261,300; Thursday, $6,103,250; Friday, $7,457,150. The current sales of the loan are at the unprecedented rate of $37,474,440 a week. At this rate, all the unsold balance of the series will be disposed of in less than five weeks. The orders for the $50 and $100 notes of the loan, this week, have averaged 4,142.
A local cotemporary, in alluding to the loan, says: "Our attention has been called to the language of the official advertisement, which would seem to imply that only the one hundred and seventy (or one hundred and eighty) millions of the current series not yet taken, is authorized by an act of Congress." In the advertisement referred to, it is stated that: "Less than $200,000,000 of the Loan authorized by the last Congress are now on the market * * * It now seems probable that no considerable amount beyond the present series (of Seven-Thirties) will be offered to the public." This is plain language, clearly meaning that of the Loans, for the coming fiscal year, authorized by the last Congress, less than $200,000,000 are now open to public subscription, and that in view of the practical termination of the war, the sweeping retrenchment in public expenditures, and the growing income from internal revenue, the Treasury Department will not be obliged to borrow much more than the first $300,000,000 of the $600,000,000 authorized by the Act of Congress, March 3, 1865. Our cotemporary need not send all the way to Washington for accurate information on these points.
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The term democracy, which means “rule by the people,” was coined by the Greeks of ancient Athens to describe their city-state’s system of self-rule, which reached its golden age around 430 B.C. under the skilled orator and politician Pericles. It is probable that the Athenians were not the first group of people to adopt such a system (a few places in India have traditions of local democracy that claim earlier origins) but because the Greeks named it, they have a good claim at being the “first” democracy, even though large portions of Athenian society—most notably women and slaves—could not participate.