Friday, October 7, 2011

Derivation and process of democracy

DERIVATION AND PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY
=Solon, founder of democracy=
(560-640 BC)

DESCRIPTION :- Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is worked particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.


In 594 B.C. he was elected chief Magistrate of Athens at a time when the conditions of the indigent were very bad. Up to then the rulers were the rich farmers and businessmen who were known as aristocracy means rule by the best. These aristocrats had their own thoughts and did all in their own way. They even made and unmade laws to suit their own interests. So their government was basically aimed at establishing a government to facilitate their own cause, love and luxury.

Solon was determined to do away with its. He put an end to the system by which a debtor who could not pay became the slave of the man to whom he owed money. He re-ordered the constitution of Athens by dividing the population into four classes, each having defined rights. The most important was that members of all four could be elected to the popular assembly, which meant that more people could have a real say in government the real beginning of democracy.

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