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Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted.Ostwald, Martin is the author of 'From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens' with ISBN 9780520067981 and ISBN 0520067983.
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