And females...

And females, both free and enslaved, were not given the right to vote until the nineteenth constitutional amendment in 1920[^3]. Democracy in the above mentioned forms, is an imaginary and inapplicable idea in large scale societies. In general, both advocates and critics agree that ‘rule by the people’ - in the truest meaning of the people – never existed and is never likely to exist.

It is impossible for any democratic regime to be fully democratic, as it will always fall short of the criteria that emanates from its self-evident meaning. The virtues and advantages that are mentioned to justify democratic government undoubtedly require ‘participatory democracy’, which delegates decisions to citizens, so, in a single meeting or during an election, people are able to express their opinions. That is why the Greeks passionately supported ‘assembly democracy’.