What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

The principles of the Athenian democracy, including citizen participation, equality and free speech, are still what we need the most.

Euripides exposed the city’s turmoil, challenged the gods, and gave scandalous voice to women and the silenced, unsettling ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad.

Many people today worry that John Adams might have been onto something when he observed that “there has never been a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Miller tries to put these worries in ...

History of Political Thought, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 400-417 (18 pages) At least since Benjamin Constant gave a speech on the subject in 1819 at the Athénée Royal in Paris, there has been ...

In December the Supreme Court in the American state of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...

A consensus in our fractured body politic is that democracy is in peril. Yet a 2021 poll found that 42 percent of Republicans viewed Democrats as a "serious threat" to democracy, while 41 percent of ...

President Trump recently scored a victory with the Supreme Court: The justices agreed to hear his case that his former role as president grants him immunity in the face of federal charges. Among the ...

Six months of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more than 115,000 deaths, staggering unemployment, closed schools, overrun food banks and renewed attention to the “pandemic within a ...