Question

What is Democracy?Who Established It?

Answer 1

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The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people. ... A democracy, at least in theory, is government on behalf of all the people, according to their "will".

Answer 2

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Under Cleisthenes, what is generally held as the first example of a type of democracy in 508–507 BC was established in Athens. Cleisthenes is referred to as "the father of Athenian democracy".

The concepts (and name) of democracy and constitution as a form of government originated in ancient Athens circa 508 B.C.

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