WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romans established a form of government-a republic-that was copied by countries for centuries In fact, the government of the United States is based partly on Rome’s model.

Detailed explanation-2: -The United States of America has a republic. The ancient Roman republic had three branches of government. In the beginning, the legislative branch was the Senate, a group made up of 300 citizens from Rome’s patrician class, the oldest and wealthiest families of Rome.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman Republic was founded in 509 B.C.E. after the last Etruscan king that ruled Rome was overthrown. Rome’s next government served as a representative democracy in the form of a republic. Initially, Rome’s wealthiest families, the patricians, held power and only they could hold political or religious offices.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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-6: -In creating a senate, the framers were heavily influenced by the idea of mixed government, a concept rooted in ancient Greece and Rome.

Detailed explanation-7: -The US government and the Roman Republic both have the Executive and Legislative Branches in their government. The Roman Republic and US Government both have a set of checks and balances.