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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