Eh, it sounds like Athens had systems in place to deal with these problems. With cause you could remove people from office and there was some sort of test to de

Eh, it sounds like Athens had systems in place to deal with these problems. With cause you could remove people from office and there was some sort of test to determine if you were eligible for the office at all. Their tests for citizenship (which was the only test that mattered for putting yourself up for election) were bigoted, I don't see any reason to hold them up as useful.