Introduction
The Senate of Rome was the first actual representation of republic system around the world and played a pivotal role in Roman politics, it transformed from the advisory agency to the most authoritative political power of Rome. On the other hand, the senate not only make great influences and important decisions for Rome, but served as the foundation of the modern republic system. In this extent, it is vitally important to understand the history of the Roman Senate in order to understand the Roman society and political life in a broad perspective and the development of future global politics, especially republic system. In this essay, I will go through the history and the development of the senate and analyze how and in what extent …show more content…
The senate could operate only by its own political interest and could pass whatever law they want to have and eliminate all its enemies simply. For example, the senate voted to make Julius Caesar a public enemy of the country. The senate was an agency that only defend its own political ambitions instead of defending the democracy of the country. It alliances with Pompey in order to defeat Caesar by using law to restrict Caesar, who was the biggest threat to the sole-ruling of the senate and giving more power to Pompey. However, Julius Caesar, the founder of the empire, crashed the absolute power held by aristocrats of the senate and replaced it with dictate power by calling series of reforms and getting the support of people. He was deeply unsatisfied by the rule of senate, and found Crassus, who was the richest person of Rome, and Pompey, who held tremendous military power to form the first triumvirate, which then consist huge amount of power, money and military and became the absolute power of Rome. In this extent, the senate lost much of its power and became unable to compete with the absolute power of the triumvirate. Caesar could just take his proposal of the land distribution law to the Tribal Assembly without the approval of the senate and forced senators to swear to respect the land distribution law. He even ignored the senate and took three proposals, which stabilized the power of the triumvirate and limited the senate, directly to the Tribal Assembly and passed all of them. After Caesar crossed the Rubicon by the excuse that senate harmed the constitution and dictated his political future, he officially declared Civil War with the republic. Similar but different with what Sulla did, Caesar crashed the power of senate. He added additional 300 senators, who were his
The Senate of Rome was the first actual representation of republic system around the world and played a pivotal role in Roman politics, it transformed from the advisory agency to the most authoritative political power of Rome. On the other hand, the senate not only make great influences and important decisions for Rome, but served as the foundation of the modern republic system. In this extent, it is vitally important to understand the history of the Roman Senate in order to understand the Roman society and political life in a broad perspective and the development of future global politics, especially republic system. In this essay, I will go through the history and the development of the senate and analyze how and in what extent …show more content…
The senate could operate only by its own political interest and could pass whatever law they want to have and eliminate all its enemies simply. For example, the senate voted to make Julius Caesar a public enemy of the country. The senate was an agency that only defend its own political ambitions instead of defending the democracy of the country. It alliances with Pompey in order to defeat Caesar by using law to restrict Caesar, who was the biggest threat to the sole-ruling of the senate and giving more power to Pompey. However, Julius Caesar, the founder of the empire, crashed the absolute power held by aristocrats of the senate and replaced it with dictate power by calling series of reforms and getting the support of people. He was deeply unsatisfied by the rule of senate, and found Crassus, who was the richest person of Rome, and Pompey, who held tremendous military power to form the first triumvirate, which then consist huge amount of power, money and military and became the absolute power of Rome. In this extent, the senate lost much of its power and became unable to compete with the absolute power of the triumvirate. Caesar could just take his proposal of the land distribution law to the Tribal Assembly without the approval of the senate and forced senators to swear to respect the land distribution law. He even ignored the senate and took three proposals, which stabilized the power of the triumvirate and limited the senate, directly to the Tribal Assembly and passed all of them. After Caesar crossed the Rubicon by the excuse that senate harmed the constitution and dictated his political future, he officially declared Civil War with the republic. Similar but different with what Sulla did, Caesar crashed the power of senate. He added additional 300 senators, who were his