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I don't know what M-W has to say about Roman voting laws. I only meant to say that they support my view, namely that a republic is neither subgroup nor supergroup of a democracy. As for Roman laws: Only a small fraction of the population was allowed to vote, even though a lot more were considered citizens. This is in contrast to Greek democracies, where every citizen was allowed to vote. Women, slaves and whatever other perioiks (sp?) lived in any given city just did not count. The most obvious difference between republics and democracies can be found in Northern Europe: Norway, Sweden and Denmark are democracies and monarchies. I only mentioned Rome because they coined the term. --Yooden |
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