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How did the first democracy die?

681.443 - 702.685 PJ Vogt

The Athenians had a stone machine called a claritarion, which is sort of hard to picture, but you could just imagine instead if you want the random ball jumbler from a bingo hall. The Claritarion helped randomly assign random citizens to the Athenian version of Congress. There, they would serve for a year. You didn't vote for your congressman.

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