To: ArmstedFragg
This was a problem for a lot of Roman history, and it caused the fall of the Republic, for sure, and allowed the political instability that allowed the rise of the Emperor. And the way it played out in Athens gave democracy a bad name for many centuries.
1,496 posted on
07/18/2006 8:20:30 PM PDT by
Knitting A Conundrum
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1,513 posted on
07/18/2006 8:25:08 PM PDT by
sageb1
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