Our Founding Fathers turned to ancient Greece. studied its democratic political thought. analyzed it. debated it. and determined that our basic constitutional principles should be based upon a foundation of representative government. Therefore. we owe much to Greece as the cradle of modern day democratic political thought. To a certain extent. it is somewhat tragic that America did not have the benefit of major waves of Greek immigration until 1900. We had adopted and refined ancient Greek political thought to fit our needs for representational government. Yet it was not until 1900 that the first wave of Greeks came to this country. enriching our already diverse culture.
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