More: Opinion: America has lost the most elementary understanding of requirements of democracy Religious subversion of the polity clearly happened in the ancient Athenian and Roman democracies.
The constitution of the Roman republic was characterised by the ... data of being "a corrupt judge protecting corruption". So democracy's delicate balancing act is under serious pressure.
He came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny. How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.
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