WITH the efforts underway to revise our 1987 Constitution with the express purpose of shifting to a federal (from a centralized unitary governance system) form of government, we might say that that alone will make a better democracy as there will be more democratic organs for people to participate in: local, regional and federal. Unlike our present system which, while democratic in name, is actually undemocratic in substantial ways if one is to compare it with the original Athenian democracy existing around 400 BC in Athens and its suburbs. Here, citizens and multiple governance bodies, starting from the small village, interacted meaningfully to ensure that the economy, infrastructure, budgets, defense, politics, etc. could have the benefit of both citizen-expertise in certain fields as well as ordinary citizen inputs in general subjects impacting governance.