What was more pertinent, and continues to be so about ancient Athenian democracy, was the inclusion of the working poor, who not only acquired the right to free speech, but more importantly, crucially, they acquired the rights to political judgments that were afforded equal weight in the decision-making concerning matters of state.
جنبه‌ی مثبت دموکراسی آتنی که هنوز هم اینگونه است، شمولِ طبقه‌ی کارگرِ فقیر است که نه تنها حق آزادی بیان بدست می‌آورد، بلکه مهمتر از آن حقِ قضاوتِ سیاسی که سببِ سهمِ برابر در تصمیم‌گیری‌های مربوط به کشور می‌شد را بدست می‌آوردند.