#republics

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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#athens #century #democracies #just #later