[MinorityRepublican]

This is why most republics that actually function are peopled predominantly by Christians. Because Christians have a fundamental devotion to the truth and to honesty, as well as a definition of love that wills the good of another before their own good.

The Roman Republic lasted 482 years (509–27 BC), during which adult male Roman citizens voted for officials and laws, although the system heavily favored the wealthy elite.

[Antoninus]

The Roman Republic lasted 482 years (509–27 BC), during which adult male Roman citizens voted for officials and laws, although the system heavily favored the wealthy elite.

The last 100 years or so of the Republic were hardly republican. Before that, Rome was a state with a few hundred thousand actual voters at most. Also, the morality embraced by the Romans during the early and middle republic was proto-Christian in that it valued order, obedience, honesty, self-sacrifice and loyalty. One could argue that this cultural framework is what made Christianity very attractive to traditional Romans--almost like it was ordained by Providence.