Athenian Government Analysis

Government is arguably the most complex and most controversial topics in the world. Governments are constantly changing to fit the needs of the modern world. Look at the U.S., we must constantly change what worked for our founding fathers in order to keep our modern society stable. Every government decided on their personal criteria during their creation. My criteria are a collection from the best parts from the most efficient governments in history. My first criteria is that a great government must give a voice to every citizen. We first saw this in the great ancient power of Athens. Led by this voice, Athens grew to one of the greatest city-states in all of Greece. Next, equal rights and power to all the citizens is vital in keeping a stable

This right helped build ancient Athens. They would vote on almost everything. They small disks that had slight difference on each side, and they would toss this disk on the side that corresponds with their answer. This gave each and every person the ability to directly influence their life through the government. In “The Destructors”, on page 1, “confined to voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the plan of operations proposed by Blackie each day.” (1). This is very similar to the Republican Democracy of the United States, where the president proposes an idea and the others vote on it. Voice to all the people can make people feel like they are every bit as important to the government as any official. This feeling can make people think twice before they resists the government. Even the very corrupt Jack waited for awhile before resisting the boys democracy

If you were a government official, and you knew for sure that if you changed policies without consent you would be overthrown, would you start corroding the foundations of your government? In Lord of the Flies, Jack became a very corrupt leader. His leadership style went from questionable to insane. The boys started to slightly question his leadership with their actions, but then took the orders anyway, “ ‘I said grab them!’ The painted group moved round Samneric nervously and unhandily” (178). I am sure that if the boys decided they had the right to overthrow the quite hysterical Jack, a lot of violence could have been prevented and lives could have been