What did the Greeks use to decide who should hold public office?
Pericles' Funeral Oration
"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one...is kept [out of government]
because of poverty."
-Pericles, as recorded by Thucydides,
history of the Peloponnesian War
a. class
b. primary elections
c. wealth
d. ability
Answer: d. ability
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