Excerpt from The Reconciliation of Government With Liberty The Greeks and the state as a human institution - The political system of Ancient Greece - The Dorian invasion - The social basis of the Spartan state -the Lycurgan Constitution - The College of Ephors - The powers of the Ephors in limiting autocracy - The downfall of the Ephors - The decay of Sparta - The Ionian invasion - The Athenian state - Change from King to archons-the Draconian Constitution and the Court of the Ephetae - Fopu lar discontent and the appearance of Cylon - The Solonian Constitution and institutions - The Areopagus and its Judicial power - The advent of Pisistratus and demagogy - The tyranny of Hippias - Clisthenes and genuine democracy - The War with Persia and its results on the Constitution of Athens and the relation of Athens to her Allies - Pericles and Caesaristic de mocracy - Overthrow of the Areopagus by Pericles - The decay of Athens Defects in the constitutional relations of the Assembly to the Areopagus - The Greek states as despotisms unable to form a National Union - The rule of Macedon over Greece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.