Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A) it encouraged allied soldiers by giving them goals to defend.
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If I understood your question correctly, the culture that was present in Athens at the time when they first started with the project we today know as democracy surely did play a role in the atual development of democracy. They did not have a central authoritarian figure which would ruthlesly and without question rule over his people as was happening in other place, this was one important reason for why democracy could have been developed there in the first place.
The president is in charge of the whole country. The governor is only in charge of the state.