How does Athenian democracy compare to the democratic system of the United States? Make it a paragraph of 4 sentences plz

For starters, they had a totally different form of election. Elections were held through a lottery/chance technique, and they only personally selected their military leaders (like Pericles). "The quintessentially democratic method was selection by lot, a practice that embodies a criterion of selection in principle opposed to the alienation of citizenship and to the assumption that the demos is politically incompetent"

protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.