Odd Year Voting Is Classic Greek Democracy
Odd Year Voting is Classic Greek Democracy By Robert Korczynski In ancient Sparta and Athens, democracy only included land-owning male veterans that were citizens of the state, and never included people passing by or temporarily living there, and no women, and no slaves. The amount of the population that fit this criteria was about 13% , and they were the only ones that were allowed to vote. Up until 1820 in the United States and everywhere on the planet, the definition of democracy had always been some version of Greek democracy. America was set up with classic Greek democracy, but in 1820 three American states extended voting rights to poor white men, participating in the slippery slope into universal suffrage on the planet started by the French and the Haitians, but without killing the ruling class. Over the next 100 years, the suffragist movement finally achieved universal suffrage in the United States, giving women the right to vote in 1920. Yet, 12 years before women got the righ...