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      Byzantium was an extension of Athenian democracy, as the Byzantine   
   Senate ratified laws and impeached emperors while the ROmans had   
   ceased to take such functions seriously. The Emperors held town hall   
   meetings in the Hippodrome. The TUrks and RUssians felt compelled to   
   continue these tradition in their Divan and Assembie sof the Land. It   
   was only when Peter the Great sought to emulate the West that the   
   democratic institutions withered. Furthermore Baldwin's crusaders,   
   compelled to obey Byzantine governance in 1204, plagiarised these   
   traditions into the Magna Carta in 1215. That's right, AngloSaxon   
   democracy was directly plagiarised from Byzantium.  Greek leftists   
   have discarded their traditions and language in the hope of   
   reinventing themselves but should not be taken seriously.   
      
   				    - = -   
    Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist   
      http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm  http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2   
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