Thousands of years ago, the roots of democracy was developing in ancient athens around 500 BC. Cleisthenes and Aristotle's ideas and elements for a democracy was being developed. I will be talking about essential elements of ancient Athenian democracy created by great thinkers including aristotle and Cleisthenes will be briefly summarised henceforth this the discussion will narrow down and focus specifically on the negative and positive elements of ideas around education and aristotle’s ideas for the middle classes.It is hard to come up with a perfect system but out of all I think democracy’s elements of freedom, equality, and education outweigh the negative elements of democracy.
Athenian democracy had many elements that it was made up of. These …show more content…
without power to everyone that is also inequality which can cause problems like protests.
In addition to power is to the whole of people another essential element in a democracy is laws protect people. Laws allow equality and freedom. Laws guard a person while landowners and monarch’s find protection in armed guards. In document 4 is says “Democratic states are led according to established laws”(Aeschines, against Timarchus) and “Men,Therefore, who administer and oligarchy, or any government based on inequality, must be on their guard against those who attempt revolution by the law of force”(Aeschines, against Timarchus). These quotes support my statement that laws run democracy and without laws it could mean anarchy and chaos as said in the second quote. since everyone is guarded with laws, people who break them shall be punished.
In this essay I want my readers to understand that democracy is the best system of government. the elements like freedom, equality, and laws are some of the many essential elements that make up democracy. Without these elements and democracy there will be many problems such as fighting, chaos, inequality and even