Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

— Moses I. Finley Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985)

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