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checks and balances,
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separation of powers,
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appointment to important offices,
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unelected bureaucracies,
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judicial life tenure,
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terms for elective office of more than one year,
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all of these would have seen clear and deadly enemies
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of what reasonable people might understand by democracy.
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So, these differences between ancient and modern ideas
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require a brief examination
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of how the Athenian democracy worked,
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if we are to shed our prejudices