Democratic principles in Athens and the roman republic

Athens creates demokratía and Rome the re publica. Both systems are sustained, basically, in the same constitutional structures in which the dêmos or populus participate in the political life in a more or less stable relation of balance with the other organs of being able (Senado or Areópago and magistratures). The history of both cities will be that one of the fight to reach, each time, higher levels of presence and decision of the people in all institutions