SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Republic-A form of government in which power rests with citizens who have the right to vote for their leaders. In Rome, citizenship with voting rights was granted only to free-born male citizens. Rome’s social groups: ○ Patricians-Wealthy landowners who held most of the power.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the people (and thus the assemblies) held the ultimate source of sovereignty. Since the Romans used a form of direct democracy, citizens, and not elected representatives, voted before each assembly. As such, the citizen-electors had no power, other than to cast a vote.