Assess the strengths and weaknesses of Athenian Democracy

It has been said that democracy is worst form of government except all those others forms that have
been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, 1947




Democracy – a word that has been used for a century just to share responsibility between people for all individual crimes in the history.
Hitler called his Nazis Germany a kind of ‘democracy’, Soviet Union during era of communism with single leader party was ‘democracy’. America was ‘democracy’ when millions of people were slaves. Even Britain today is called ‘democracy’ when millions of people never exercise their right to vote. So who invent this word and where does it come from?

The word democracy came from two Greek words: a noun, demos, which means “people” and a verb, Kratein, which means “to rule”. Its basic meaning is “government by the people” or “rule by the ruled”. The origin of democracy lie...