Week 5 Daily 1

What elements of the Roman Republican political and legal system appear present in the systems of modern democracies?      




         There are many elements of the Roman political and legal system that appear in the present system of democracies.  The Roman government is broken into four major parts although the American is broken into three. The romans have a Legislative branch, a executive branch, a senate, and other which contained many smaller sections made up of the plebeians which were the romans of the lower class or common people. The american government uses two of the four roman branches; the executive and legislative parts. The american democracy also has a judicial branch. The judicial branch helps determine whether what is done is constitutional or not usually relating to certain laws and trials. The legislative branch will write the laws and such. the legislative branch has two groups, the senate and the house of representatives. When a bill is written they vote and need a majority in order to make it a law or not. When the Representatives and senates meet they form the congress. A bill must go through congress before it reaches the president to make a final decision.