POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bar Bar Bar, Metic, Phon

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

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Conflicting view: elections have the tendency elect the same people, or the same kinds of people. Lecture 4: at the end of his service, the public servant would go through another examination, and look through what they did and if they did it well. Building of a new theatre house in athens: citizens of athens would decide what these special taxes," would go towards. In the history of the western world, athens gave their citizens the most power, allowing them to participate in political life: the price to pay is that others were excluded. Slaves: the property of someone else, cannot have recourse to legal trigons, slaves cannot live where they want, slave owners cannot be treated however the slave master wanted. It was codified in such a way as to prevent the physical abuse of slaves: couldn"t insult a slave, physically abuse a slave, kill a slave.