Democracy and its birth place

Democracy, in Greek demokratia (rule by the people), birth place Athens in Greece.

The original intention of this political system was to bring about the act of citizen participation in the decision making process. Directly or indirectly by way of voting and elected representative. Athens in the 4th century AD would have been described as a City State with many other opposing forms of governors in control of the territories around Athens. Leading their own particular brand of state or territory control.

It has been overthrown in history and has had tyrannical takeovers. Democracy has had a revival in the last two hundred years, after a long period of obscurity. In more recent times, its character, has taken on a representative approach, expressing a more indirect approach to its character and development. There are those in the modern world, who have used the term to describe themselves, whilst there are little signs of the political system in reality. The term has been used as a veneer, over the top of the true nature of that type of government or the tyrannical governors.