The real motives behind Solon's economic reforms are therefore as questionable as his real motives for constitutional reform.

Modern scholars doubt the reliability of these sources and our knowledge of Solon's legislation is therefore actually very limited in its details.

Depending on how we interpret the historical facts known to us, Solon's constitutional reforms were either a radical anticipation of democratic government, or they merely provided a plutocratic flavour to a stubbornly aristocratic regime, or else the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes.

It is most usual to date Athenian democracy from Cleisthenes, since Solon's constitution fell and was replaced by the tyranny of Peisistratus, whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes ' constitution relatively peacefully.

Previous to Solon's reforms, the Athenian state was administered by nine archons appointed or elected annually by the Areopagus on the basis of noble birth and wealth.

Up until Solon's time, land was the inalienable property of a family or clan and it could not be sold or mortgaged.

Solon's presumed pederastic desire was thought in antiquity to have found expression also in his poetry, which is today represented only in a few surviving fragments.

It was only after he had lost his kingdom to the Persian king Cyrus, while awaiting execution, that Croesus acknowledged the wisdom of Solon's advice.

Stobaeus in the Florilegium relates a story about a symposium, where Solon's young nephew was singing a poem of Sappho's ; Solon, upon hearing the song, asked the boy to teach him to sing it.

It is most usual to date Athenian democracy from Cleisthenes, since Solon's constitution fell and was replaced by the tyranny of Peisistratus, whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes ' constitution relatively peacefully.

Ironically, the local high school's mascot is the Spartans ; Sparta was famously an enemy of Solon's home, Athens.

In Plato's Timaeus, Critias tells the story of Solon's visit to Egypt shortly after Solon was elected archon in 594 B. C.

Solon's story was eventually resolved when Deszaras abandoned him in battle, leading to Solon joining the Autobots.

In October 2005, a report on Solon's deportation was released, following an inquiry conducted by former Victoria Police commissioner Neil Comrie.

Eventually Solon's former husband, Robert Young, was informed where Solon was.

The Bureau was put through to officer ' A ' in Canberra ( who had already been told twice of Solon's unlawful deportation ).

Solon's DIMIA case file was not stored with the normal case files, and was instead found separately, in the desk of one of officer ' A's subordinates.

An anonymous senior immigration official reported to Lateline that Solon's situation was due to a systemic problem in the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.

The social worker who was one of the last people given access to Ms Solon before her deportation said she had requested from Immigration the grounds for Solon's deportation.

The report was strongly critical of DIMIA, concluding that a combination of incompetence, inadequate training, improper data systems and poor management led to Solon's deportation.

The only evidence in Solon's file which seemed to indicate that she was not legally in Australia was a handwritten note, which was not dated or signed by anyone, which stated:

They assumed that Solon's surname was Alvarez ( actually her middle name ) and conducted their initial searches based on this name.

Before Ms Solon's return to Australia, there was speculation in both the media and in the legal community about the possibility of a compensation claim being brought by her against the Commonwealth Government and / or the Department of Immigration.

About a century later, Solon's reforms were further enhanced for even more direct involement of regular citizens by Cleisthenes.

Plutarch professes admiration of Solon's elegy urging Athenians to recapture the island of Salamis from Megarian control.

Economic crises in Athens around 600 BC had resulted in so many Athenians sold into slavery that Solon enacted the seisachtheia which banned the practice of debt bondage and returned Athenians to their land as free men, at least according to Solon's own claims.

Such institutions were abolished by city-states well before Macedon's rise ( most notably by the Athenian legislator Solon's famous seisachtheia laws ).

The educated Pheidippides demonstrates how Solon's intentions can be interpreted so as to subvert his laws ( line 1187 ).

Critias proceeds to tell the story of Solon's journey to Egypt where he hears the story of Atlantis, and how Athens used to be an ideal state that subsequently waged war against Atlantis ( 25a ).

Land reform is likely to be a pressing issue in many of these countries.

The most important of these found him in agreement with Hough's plea for reform.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

This left the Rump basically a conservative body whose vested interests in the existing land ownership and legal systems made them unlikely to want to reform these.

However, other observers ( like Minxin Pei ) question whether these steps are genuine efforts towards democratic reform or disingenuous measures by the CPC to retain power.

Thus, we should prioritize social reform over attempts to account for consequences, individual virtue or duty ( although these may be worthwhile attempts, provided social reform is provided for ).

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

The Karzai administration along with international donors have remained committed to improving access to these basic necessities by prioritizing infrastructure development, education, housing development, jobs programs, medical care, and economic reform.

If these were the outcomes of reform, he was thankful that he had kept out of it.

Of these Otello formed the climax to his reform of serious opera, and offers a suggestive contrast with the treatment of the same subject at a similar point of artistic development by the composer Giuseppe Verdi.

The supporters of reform and of limitations on the absolutist rule of the Spanish throne rallied behind Isabella and the regent, Maria Christina ; these reformists were called " Cristinos.

Politically, these opposition forces organized into three competing parties: The liberal elements among the industrial capitalists and nobility, who believed in peaceful social reform and a constitutional monarchy, founded the Constitutional Democratic party or Kadets in 1905.

The Young Turk revolution brought these movements to the front, hoping that the reform of Ottoman Empire would lead to broader reforms.

Thus, we should prioritize social reform over concern with consequences, individual virtue or duty ( although these may be worthwhile concerns, provided social reform is also addressed ).

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

School to work may also be a component of these multi-faceted reform programs.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

More recently, advocates for radical reform in justice systems have called for a public policy adoption of non-punitive, non-violent Restorative Justice methods, and many of those studying the success of these methods, including a United Nations working group on Restorative Justice, have attempted to re-define justice in terms related to peace.

Many of these letters contain questions about church reform and liturgical or doctrinal matters.

The critics of the outside world praised them, but at home, Eisenstein's focus in these films on structural issues such as camera angles, crowd movements, and montage brought him and like-minded others, such as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko, under fire from the Soviet film community, forcing him to issue public articles of self-criticism and commitments to reform his cinematic visions to conform to the increasingly specific doctrines of socialist realism.

" However, over time various perceived issues with these provisions, such as the risk of corruption and the potential for electoral deadlocks or a lack of representation should a seat become vacant, led to a campaign for reform.