What is your guys' opinion on the Roman Republic? Should

>>131544234
>Should we let people vote on what happens directly

more like

>should we let a council of hereditary oligarchs vote two of their number into power under the oversight of a self selected censor, unless something really bad happens in which case we appoint a dictator from among their number, unless something bad happens that affects the poor, in which case we give a lesser house the powers of the mob through tribunal representatives that may call for their own dictator, and then give the winners of these machinations professional armies and tell them to be virtuous in their exercise of arms and trust to the gods that everything will work out ok.

Naw

>>131544682
You forget that while there was an oligarchy esque senate, there was also the assemblies. In particular, the comitia was an assembly of the citizens to vote on enacting laws. Of course later on the assemblies were made obsolete as the empire drew near, but the early roman republic was the prime time of rome.

>>131545545
I agree if we are talking early Livy, but everything from the first punic war was a political shitshow that was borne by force of arms, and x2 that post gracchi