The Assembly or Ecclesia, was a seemingly limited franchise which bore similarity to modern day democracies where only free citizens of a minimum age, say eighteen and of sound mind can participate in the governance process especially elections. ... The principle of free and fair elections which characterises an advance democracy was also upheld in the ancient Athenian democracy. According to Held (2006), the ancient democratic city-state was considered a unique political community because it attempted to enable the men express and transform their understanding of the good through political in...

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Misinformation could even happen in a largely free democratic Western system if citizens are not informed fully about the policies they are voting for in electing a representative, or if policies are deliberately misconstrued by opponents to portray the policy former in a negative light. ... There is no procedural democracy which can be abused by a malicious state as there are no free and competitive elections and people do not have to choose their political representatives as The Party does that for them. ...

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