Imagine that it is 507 BC, only two years since the Roman Republic was founded, the very first modern democracy. Democracy is the type of government that the Republic now uses, and you are currently heading to Rome to vote on a new law. All of that aside, the Roman Republic wasn’t strictly a democracy. There were also aristocracy and despotism, aristocracy handling the investigations and laws, despotism the military and money. Rome had a democratic area of its government, but the Republic was less of a democracy than a modern democracy for the reasons that the consuls (magistrates) could use the army as they wanted, the Senate controlled foreign interactions, and people that were disqualified could not vote.
The consuls were the supreme of
The consuls were the supreme of