The system of democracy was first introduced in Athens, Greece. Athens first started with a direct democracy
It depends, they are not suppose to take them away but they can make them. If they are taken away they broke our constitution.
Wider margins are your friend. They reduce the length of each individual line of text, making your writing easier for your readers' eyes to scan. And they create mental 'breathing space'* that makes the whole document more pleasant to read.
The geographic feature which served as a barrier to the political union of the Greek city-states and their independence from each other was the numerous mountains all over the geography of the Hellenic Peninsula or Greek Mainland.
India's distance from Europe has been reduced by 
km since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
