Government in Ancient Greece (written by 5th graders): “If citizens (of Athens) did not care for a politician, when they voted, they wrote on a clay tablet which person they wanted to leave Athens. If one person got more than 6,000 votes against him, he couldn’t come back to Athens for 10 years.” So bad politicians got deported, eh? I wonder how often that happened. A “citizen” in Ancient Greece was itself a priviliged office. Each city-state had its own requirements for citizenship (the common prerequisite being that you had to be male). Spartan citizens had a strict life of training and were often off at war, which, interestingly enough, meant that the women of Sparta actually had more freedom of movement than women in other more cultural city-states like Athens.