id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5952 Democracy - Wikipedia .html text/html 22093 2820 63 Athenian democracy was not only direct in the sense that decisions were made by the assembled people, but also the most direct in the sense that the people through the assembly, boule and courts of law controlled the entire political process and a large proportion of citizens were involved constantly in the public business.[45] Even though the rights of the individual were not secured by the Athenian constitution in the modern sense (the ancient Greeks had no word for "rights"[46]), the Athenians enjoyed their liberties not in opposition to the government but by living in a city that was not subject to another power and by not being subjects themselves to the rule of another person.[47] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5952.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5952.txt