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To: allmendream

The Senators were not elected — therefore there was no Roman Republic to overthrow. The “Roman Republic” was just a fascist oligarchy. Caesar was viewed as a threat to the corrupt senators’ financial interests, and that’s all that was going on.


72 posted on 05/14/2008 12:40:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
All those elections and yet the Roman Senate was somehow not elected? How does one hold elections for Senate and determine a winner without that winner being “elected”?

Caesar was a threat to the Senates financial interests, just as the Senate was a threat to Caesar’s financial interests. Calling either of them corrupt would be accurate, referring to only one party as corrupt would be revisionist.

My sympathy is for a Representative form of government. The Senate was far more Representative than Caesar. The precedent that Caesar set led to Czars, Kaisers and Kings claiming absolute one man rule for the next thousand years. Good thing our founders were more inspired by the ideals of a Republic than those of a Tyrant.

73 posted on 05/14/2008 1:03:05 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: SunkenCiv
Much like the Original U.S. Senate the Roman Senate was not directly elected. They were a body of 600 magistrates or ex-magistrates elected minimally to the office of Questor and appointed by the Consul to the Senate for life when there was a vacancy.

So to be a Senator one had to win at least one elected office (Questor at least), and be appointed by another elected official (a Consul).

74 posted on 05/14/2008 1:19:38 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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