Vote for your Government!

[Yorick]

Originally posted by Ar-Cunin: Sorry Yorick - it wasen't everybody that voted -serfs (danish: livegne) didn't vote but women did!

From encarta online:

The democracies of the city-states of classical Greece and of Rome during the early years of the Republic were unlike the democracies of today. They were direct democracies, in which all citizens could speak and vote in assemblies that resembled New England town meetings.

Representative government was unknown and unnecessary because of the small size of the city-states (almost never more than 10,000 citizens).

Ancient democracy did not presuppose equality of all individuals; the majority of the populace, notably slaves and women, had no political rights.

Athens, the greatest of the city democracies, limited the franchise to native-born citizens. Roman democracy resembled that of the Greeks, although Rome sometimes granted citizenship to men of non-Roman descent.

[Yorick]

Originally posted by caleb: I thought women only voted in certain city-states of greece?

Don't know about that, but in Sparta the women owned all the property.

[caleb]

OK thats probably what I was thinking of.