Democracy

ting them in a written code, letting everyone know what the laws were and how they applied to everyone. In a direct democracy all the people meet to discuss problems and create laws. The representative democracy has begun in America in the 1700’s. Solon, the next Athenian ruler, also helped Athens become a democracy. In Athens, an assembly was set up, this assembly met forty times a year to discuss and vote on issues.

Direct democracy was practiced in Athens. This assembly was made up of 500 men. There are two types of democracies, direct democracies, and representative democracies. This had caused America to relate to the second type of democracy, representative democracy. He wrote many reforms into the laws and gave all citizens the right to vote. All citizens were directly involved in the creation of laws.

The founders of America did not trust the Athenian form of democracy, because they feared giving the people too much power. Each branch checks one another so that not one branch has more power than the other.

In conclusion, I think America is Democratic, because the government is run by the people, and the power is divided into three branches.