Roman Government Shenanigans

We ended the last class being introduced to Tarquin. Tarquin was the last king because he was so evil that the people of Rome decided to create a system of government to protect such a person from gaining power again. But what did he do that was so evil? Well, to put it simply, he killed his father-in-law in order to gain access to the throne, refused to allow him to be buried, killed a senator that objected, and tried covering up his son's blackmailing incident that resulted in the suicide of a matron. There's no thought as to why he was run out of town. They replaced their system old system of government with the Rule of Two Consuls. This makes it so the power was split between two men, and that these men could only serve for 1 year. This only included the rich Patricians. The Plebians were fed up and protested until they also got a say in the government. This led to a government with 3 branches, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, sounds familiar. The USA shaped its government off of Roman inspiration. These two forms of government do have their differences, though. The Roman Executive branch has two leaders with absolute control over the military and has the power to veto others. Meanwhile, the US has a president and a vice-president that can also veto suggested laws and is the Commander in Cheif of the military. Both Romans and Americans have a Senate, the Romans had 300 senators while we have 100. They also had the Assemblies and we have our House of Representatives. The last branch is the Judicial branch. We have the Supreme Court acting as our Judicial Branch and the Romans had Praetors, which were chosen by Assembly.

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