How did the government of the Roman Republic work? Did they

>>2977425
They didn't have a written codified constitution. However they had a lot of orally transmitted customs.

>>2977425
>How did the government of the Roman Republic work
It didn't
Patricians get to shitpost in the senate without any kind of meritocratic system and only needed to learn rhetoric

>>2977464
Not entirely true.

"According to Roman tradition, the Law of the Twelve Tables (Latin: Leges Duodecim Tabularum or Duodecim Tabulae) was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Tables consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws.[1][2]
The Twelve Tables are sufficiently comprehensive that their substance has been described as a 'code',[3] although modern scholars consider this characterisation exaggerated.[2] The Tables were a sequence of definitions of various private rights and procedures. They generally took for granted such things as the institutions of the family and various rituals for formal transactions. The provisions were often highly specific and diverse.[4]"

>>2977482
Derp I forgot the link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tables

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>>2977465
the plebs slowly got more power anon

>>2977531
that's the gayest depiction of romans i've ever seen

>>2977484

"Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority."

"Anyone who, by means of incantations and magic arts, prevents grain or crops of any kind belonging to another from growing, shall be sacrificed to Ceres."

"Marriage by usage (usus): Where a woman, who has not been united to a man in marriage, lives with him for an entire year without the possession of her being interrupted for three nights, she shall pass into his power as his legal wife."

Interesting.

>>2977484
Old people are weird

>>2979320
utterly revolting and misogynistic.

it had many of our modern government departments, there was an organized public courier service that delivered news, items, and people throughout the empire for one

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>>2978742

you're going to have to take it up with this fella

The Cursus Honorum was the general framework for advancing in the Roman bureaucracy. Idk if it was reliably written down at the time it was contemporary, though.

>>2979320
>"Anyone who, by means of incantations and magic arts, prevents grain or crops of any kind belonging to another from growing, shall be sacrificed to Ceres."
Seems reasonable.

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>>2977425
Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fF5l2xYh0&list=PLODnBH8kenOp7y_w1CWTtSLxGgAU6BR8M

The audio gets better.

The "His Year" videos are dope as fuck and show what a banana republic the Roman Republic was.