Part 1 of Essay
The beginning, or origin of democracy was that of Athens, Greece in the year 508 BC. It lasted a total of 104 years, which is pretty good for its first time in real use. At the time of its creation it was 1 form of democracy that we know today as direct democracy. The idea of direct democracy was that every citizen vote ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... a large issue and much later in 527 AD the Justinian Code came about, which was just a collection of the laws in ancient Rome. Back in these ancient times there were three very intelligent philosophers known as Pericles, Plato, and Aristotle. All of these men were teachers and gave some valid contributions to the idea of democracy. After both the fall of democracy in Greece and in Rome, democracy was put on a long hold, and did not come back into power for many years. During this time Kings became very powerful ....