The one element of democracy that we have, which Greece did not have:

For the Greeks (or more particularly the Athenians) any system which excluded power from the whole citizen-body and was not a tyranny or monarchy was described as an oligarchy. Oligarchies were perhaps the most common form of city-state government and they often occurred when democracy went wrong.

The articles created a national government composed of a congress, which had the power to declare war, sign treaties, make alliances and more.

Ithink the answer is b