JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cleisthenes of Athens, Cleisthenes also spelled Clisthenes, (born c. 570 bce-died c. 508), statesman regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy, serving as chief archon (highest magistrate) of Athens (525–524).
Detailed explanation-3: -The concepts (and name) of democracy and constitution as a form of government originated in ancient Athens circa 508 BCE.
Detailed explanation-4: -Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly. Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly. In the late 6th century B.C., the Greek city-state of Athens began to lay the foundations for a new kind of political system.
Detailed explanation-5: -As a political system, democracy is said to have begun in the Greek city-state of Athens in 510 BCE under the leadership of Cleisthenes, an Athenian lawyer and reformer.