Thucydides in "The Peloponnesian war " perfectly shows the importance of Athens' democracy and its primary role among Greeks pòleis. The Greek ekklÃsia which represent the model of direct democracy was no more possible during the modern age. It is important to make a distinction: the term democracy should be used only in relation of the kind of government used by ancient Greeks, since the term itself means government by the people. ... With the social contract the men loses his natural liberty but he gains the civil liberty and property of all that he has. ... In the kind of socie...

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