Slides 13-22


  • rule of consuls
  • elected officials
  • aristocrats
  • they would command the army and make laws
  • they could veto each-other
  • they were later challenged by the plebs
  • plebs had no legal rights.
  • unwritten customs, no written laws.
  • plebs refused to serve in the military until there were written laws
  • SPQR-Senatus Populusque Romanum
  • democracy 
  • We modeled our gov't to the ancient romans
  • 3 branches
  • legal code
  • legislative, judicial and executive.
  • We have Bill of Rights and they have the 12 tables.

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