the Political Structure of the Roman Republic
Introduction The Roman Republic was not a modern representative democracy and was never governed through one written constitution. It was a changing system of magistracies, assemblies, religious offices, customs, precedents, and social relationships that developed after the traditional expulsion of Rome’s kings, conventionally dated to 509 BCE. Romans described their political order as the res publica, the public affair or commonwealth. The original essay correctly identifies consuls, the Senate, patricians,

