Ancient Influences (Greece and Rome)

Ancient Greece and ancient Rome both shaped ideas the founders of the United States later built on: ancient Athens, one of many Greek city-states that each governed themselves differently, practiced an early form of citizen participation through assemblies where citizens helped make decisions, while Rome developed a republic, a government where chosen representatives make decisions on behalf of the people, along with early ideas about the rule of law. The founders did not copy either system directly, since neither ancient Athens nor ancient Rome extended full citizenship or political participation to most of their own population, but they borrowed and adapted specific ideas, like citizen participation and representative government, that still shape American government today.

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