1.16 Representative democracy (2)

• Constitutional Convention of 1787 (USA) - created a constitution for the first of the large representative democracies. By 1787, the population of the United States was already greater than that of all of Ancient Greece.

• By the middle-and certainly by the end-of the nineteenth century the idea of democracy in the city-state had been entirely displaced by the idea of representative democracy in the nation-state.