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I've been reading a bit about Athenian democracy recently, and I started to wonder - is there any way to get the US Constitution to be modeled explicitly on Athenian laws, rather than merely influenced by some general ideas of classical democracy? This could include the same legislative and executive structure (ecclesia and archons), citizen vetting of officials before they entered office, immediate extension of the franchise to all adult white males, and something resembling the jury system created under Pericles.

I don't know as much as I should about the specific ideologies and influences of the Founding Fathers, so if this is entirely implausible or there were no Patriot leaders with a special affinity for Greece, you can disregard the question.

Bonus points for the amount of idiosyncratic Greek laws (ostracism, etc) you can work into the Constitution.
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