POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heliaia, Metic, Term Limit
21 Sep 2017
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Isonomy - equality before the law ( might be on exam to define the transition to democracy in athens) It is at the assembly that all citizen decide measures to be taken in the polis. Implement or execute the decisions made by the citizens in the assembly. 500 members of council ( drawn by lot ) - would sit on council for 1 year. Selected from the tribes made by kleisthenes ( each tribe would get 50 members) Membership to council could not be renewed and couldn"t be a member more than twice. Each tribal group of 50 would exercise power for 36 days (known as a prytanie) For each sitting of the council a president would be selected by lot and he would preside the council for 1 day only. Lottery system : the choice of the system wasn"t a choice of convenience.
