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The Roman Republic: Designing a System to Stop Tyranny
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Around 500 BCE, Rome abolished its kings and built one of history's most ambitious constitutional experiments — a republic engineered to prevent any single man from seizing absolute power. But the system was designed by aristocrats for aristocrats, and the struggle to make it live up to its own ideals would define five centuries of Roman history.
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Can a system of government genuinely be designed to stop one person from becoming too powerful? The Romans asked that question around five hundred BCE.
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