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The democratic government of classical Athens, despite its well-known overt egalitarian features, imposed severe limitations upon the political aspirations of the populations of Athens and Attica. Egalitarianism itself, by definition, absolutely precluded claims to privilege based on the traditional distinctions of bloodline, background, or merit. The ideology’ s impact extended to all matters involving the use of sortition or decided by votes of the entire citizen body or (as in the case of the courts) of some randomly constituted and theoretically representative selection thereof.

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