B) There was no separation of powers.
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Local elections. Local elections have the lowest turnout and thus the highest influence per voter. Most independent candidates have won in local elections.
For the Greeks (or more particularly the Athenians) any system which excluded power from the whole citizen-body and was not a tyranny or monarchy was described as an oligarchy. Oligarchies were perhaps the most common form of city-state government and they often occurred when democracy went wrong.
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