Re: query

[Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> jdevine@xxxxxxx 9/21/2004 6:08:05 PM >>>
DD writes: >the USA is the first hegemon that is also a
democracy<

wasn't ancient Athens a democracy (of sorts) at the same time that it
had hegemony among its "allies" (before the Peloponnesian war)?
JD
<<<<<>>>>>

most athenian citizens ('free white males', about 10% of city-state's
inhabitants) called their polis democracy through most of second half of
5th century bc...   michael hoover

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