HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Early in U.S. history, all slaves could vote, unlike the early Romans.
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U.S. citizens can be men and women but not foreigners.
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Romans only allowed citizens that were men to vote, whereas in the U.S. both men and women and foreigners can vote.
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Romans only allowed patrician men to vote, but in the U.S. both patrician and plebeian men can vote.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Not surprisingly, then, Rome inspired many features of our own Constitution, including its checks and balances, bicameral legislature, term limits and age requirements. In some cases, the Founders copied terms straight out of the Roman constitution: words like senate, capitol and committee.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Roman Empire dramatically shifted power away from representative democracy to centralized imperial authority, with the emperor holding the most power. For example, under Augustus’s reign, emperors gained the ability to introduce and veto laws, as well as command the army.
Detailed explanation-3: -Both the Roman Republic and American Democracy were similar in how their government was organized. Both had a separation of powers, with the Romans and their magistrates, Senate, and assemblies and tribunes, and the Americans with their president, Congress, and federal court system.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Roman Republic was ruled by two consuls, elected for a term of one year, whereas the United States is ruled by a president, elected for a term of four years. The Roman Republic was ruled by a patrician class, while the United States is ruled by the people through democracy.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rome’s economy and culture was geared towards warfare and conquest, while America’s has been geared towards freedom and liberty, and more recently towards advancing the cause of social equality. Universal suffrage in America, unlike Rome’s very limited suffrage. Women are not the property of men in America.