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The Solonian constitution was created by Solon in the early 6th century BC. [1] At the time of Solon, the Athenian State was almost falling to pieces in consequence of dissensions between the parties into which the population was divided. Solon wanted to revise or abolish the older laws of Draco.
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Solon introduced the ideas of timokratia as a graded oligarchy in his Solonian Constitution for Athens in the early 6th century BC. His was the first known deliberately implemented form of timocracy, allocating political rights and economic responsibility depending on membership of one of four tiers of the population.
The Solonian constitution divided citizens into four political classes defined according to assessable property [71] [80] a classification that might previously have served the state for military or taxation purposes only. [81]
Solon – Athenian statesman and lawmaker, remembered for the Solonian Constitution. Solonian Constitution – a code of laws embracing the whole of public and private life. It sought to revise or abolish the older laws of Draco.
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Draconian constitution, the code of laws in Athens written by Draco in the last quarter of the seventh century BC; Solonian constitution, the constitution implemented in Athens by Solon in the early sixth century BC; Areopagite constitution, the Athenian constitution before the reforms of Ephialtes in 462 BC
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