2. Officials at all levels are open to the public. After In 457 Bc, citizens of the third rank were eligible to serve as consuls, while citizens of the fourth rank were actually allowed to hold this position. As a result, all male citizens in Athens basically obtained the rights and opportunities to hold official positions at all levels through lottery, election and rotation, and there was no property restriction.
3. Implement an open salary system. At first, the state subsidized the daily life of jury judges, and the post-salary system was extended to most public offices, which provided a certain material guarantee for poor citizens to participate in political power management.
4. Limit the scope of obtaining Athenian citizenship. 45 1 year stipulates that only those whose parents are citizens of Athens can obtain Athenian citizenship.
Thanks to Pericles's painstaking efforts, the slave-owner democracy in Athens became more and more complete.
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Perikles has expanded the rights of civilians. He stipulated that the state should give certain allowances to those who hold public office, so that ordinary citizens can also hold posts. The citizens' assembly is the highest authority in Athens, which decides major issues such as internal affairs, diplomacy, war and equality. Adult male citizens can participate. The 500-member conference is composed of 50 people selected by lottery from ten tribes and remains the highest administrative organ. The jury court consists of 60 people, and each tribe draws lots to select 6000 people from citizens over the age of 30. It is the highest judicial organ, hearing major cases, supervising public officials and making decisions by voting. Ten generals were elected by a show of hands at the assembly. They are the highest officials of the government, commanding the army and holding real power.
In Perikles, the restriction of property qualification was replaced by drawing lots, and a public office allowance system was established, which enabled more people to hold public offices, thus expanding the political rights of civilians. However, those who can enjoy this right are still a minority of residents. In about 45 1 year BC, the citizens' assembly passed Perikles's proposal, which stipulated that only people whose parents were Athenian citizens could be regarded as Athenian citizens, greatly limiting the number of citizens. Slaves, foreigners and women have no civil rights. Ten will have no salary, and this position has always been monopolized by industrial and commercial slave owners, and ordinary citizens simply cannot hold it. Many people who work for a living can't often go to Athens to attend town meetings. Therefore, the democracy in Athens is essentially the democracy of slave owners, serving the slave economy.