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The word democracy comes from Greek dêmos and krátos. What does dêmos mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Athenian reformer is called the father of Athenian democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Cleisthenes, the first example of democracy was set up in which Greek city-state?Read the answer and worked solution →Athenian democracy was mainly which type of democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →In Athens, which group of people was left out of citizenship?Read the answer and worked solution →How did the Spartan assembly decide its votes?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ancient Indian city, capital of the Vajjika League, is seen as an early republic?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Native American society is described as the world's oldest standing representative democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →The English Parliament had roots in limits on royal power written into which 1215 charter?Read the answer and worked solution →The first representative national assembly in England was convened in 1265 by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Scandinavian body of freemen presided over by a lawspeaker existed in Iceland?Read the answer and worked solution →Since 1059, who has elected the pope in the Roman Catholic Church?Read the answer and worked solution →Who described democracy as government of the people, by the people, for the people?Read the answer and worked solution →Under a narrow definition, how are rulers chosen in a democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the currently dominant form of democracy in the world?Read the answer and worked solution →In a liberal democracy, what limits the power of the majority?Read the answer and worked solution →Without legal protection of rights, majority rule can lead to what danger?Read the answer and worked solution →A republic in the modern sense is a form of government without what?Read the answer and worked solution →In India, parliamentary sovereignty is subject to which instrument?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country originated the Westminster system of government?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a tool described as a form of direct democracy within modern representative governments?Read the answer and worked solution →A system mixing representative and direct elements, such as Switzerland, is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Athenian democracy, how were many administrative offices filled?Read the answer and worked solution →In a presidential democracy, which role does the elected president hold?Read the answer and worked solution →A key problem of presidential democracy is that the president and the legislature may be controlled by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom began to emerge from the Glorious Revolution of which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Strongly limited monarchies like the UK have been called what by writer H.G. Wells?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Founding Father argued in The Federalist No. 10 that a republic combats faction better than a direct democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →Today a republic often refers to a representative democracy with what kind of head of state?Read the answer and worked solution →What does a liberal democracy subject elected representatives' power to?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The word democracy comes from Greek dêmos and krátos. What does dêmos mean?

  1. Common people
  2. Ruling elite
  3. City walls
  4. Military power
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Correct answer: A. Common people

1. Democracy joins two Greek words, dêmos and krátos. 2. Dêmos means the common people, and krátos means force or might, so democracy is rule of the people. 3. Elite is the meaning linked to aristocracy, not to dêmos. _Source: Wikipedia, Democracy, Greece and Rome_

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Which Athenian reformer is called the father of Athenian democracy?

  1. Cleisthenes
  2. Draco
  3. Pericles
  4. Solon
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Correct answer: A. Cleisthenes

1. Athens set up an early form of democracy in the sixth century BC. 2. That reform is credited to Cleisthenes, who is called the father of Athenian democracy. 3. Solon, Pericles and Draco are other Athenian figures but are not given this title. _Source: Wikipedia, Democracy, Greece and Rome_

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Under Cleisthenes, the first example of democracy was set up in which Greek city-state?

  1. Athens
  2. Corinth
  3. Thebes
  4. Sparta
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Correct answer: A. Athens

1. The term democracy first appeared in Greek thought in one city-state. 2. Cleisthenes established the first democracy there in 508 to 507 BC, in Athens. 3. Sparta had an assembly, but it is not the city of Cleisthenes. _Source: Wikipedia, Democracy, Greece and Rome_

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