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Citizens of Athens were divided into 10 tribes and 50 members from each tribe that were over the age of 30 served on the Council

The Council of 500 was the full time government of Athens

The 50 Councillors from each tribe were in charge of the Council for one -tenth of the year

A tribe was a political group

The Council planned the agenda(list of topics) for Assembly meetings and made sure that those topics were discussed and voted on

There were always 50 members of Council on duty all times to help the chairman with problems or emergencies

The membership of the Council of 500 was made democratic by:

-The positions of Council were chosen through a lottery which gave every tribe member an equal chance to be picked

-Citizens can only serve on the Council twice, that way more members of the tribe could be on the Council

-The leader of the Council had their position for 24 hours, this gave more than half the Council members a chance to be a leader during the year

Democratic council of 500

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