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Ancient Athenian Democracy is different from United States democracy in some ways but in other ways it does have some similarity to the way. This is very long ago but still democracy is still something that we still use today but with different rights and rules. Still Democracy has survived all this time or maybe just picked up again in later history, still it is astounding that our ways of government are a bit the same even after all the years. In ancient Athens eligible people did vote but that was very few people only non slave males had the right to vote women and slaves could not. Every adult in the United States can vote (with the exception of the mentally ill and criminals). But not many people vote in the United States, in Athens all men were forced to vote and were not given a choice in the matter. If people had to vote in this country at this time there would be a very big difference in how many people had voted and everybody had there say in who they wanted in office and what is decided in the state. There would be a big possibility that people would say that they had a say in if they wanted to vote in the first place. But most people would be happy that every body had to vote because they would have more chance for there vote to over rule the other choice. There would be a downside to this because this would mean that the mentally ill and criminals would be able to have a vote in what would go on in the country and the world. There are some states that already allow this but not many. With the mandatory voting act it should exclude criminals and the mentally ill for the sake of everybody else in the country. Even now I don’t think that these people should have a say in what the country does in danger that they make the vote that may make the president that pulls us into another world war. Today the government people do exclude innocent and mentally okay people from voting, not because they are a threat to anybody but because they are not supposed to be hear in the first place. Illegal immigrants are not allowed to be in this country (hence the illegal) but if they were forced to vote they would probably be caught which would be good for ratting them out. I personally do not see a problem with immigrants coming over to the country on the contrary they do the jobs that other people would not much like to do. In ancient Athens the people mostly were the ones to decide things with exception of the leader of the country. America has much better rights fews but Athens had better ideas about how to help there country. If America took the rights we use today and the ideas of Athens we would have a better country.

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