Roman Government and United States Government
The Republican government of Ancient Rome can be said to be the prototype of the U.S. Constitutional government with emphasis on the word constitution. The United States government is a primarily constitutional government since the constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers has been the most important document since the founding of the country’s government system up to the present (Brice, 2015 p. 1). There are those who contend that the framework from which the Founding Fathers derived their drafted constitution included the established document of the Ancient Romans called The Twelve Tables which could be the model from which U. S. Constitutions was drafted (Brice, 2015). This is one example …show more content…
A common historical knowledge of the United States would bring us back to the revolt of Americans against the English monarchic government. The Civil Wars in the American history in the 1640s showed the culmination of the American’s overthrowing of the Monarchy and the ending of the House of Lords in 1649 (Steel, 2014). The Monarchy and the House of Lords were the political systems of the United Kingdom from where the Americans diverged and brought their own form of governance. In this connection, the Ancient Roman government could have provided model to this part of American history during the time of Roman’s early republic. In those days, around 6th century B.C.E. before the early Roman Republic, lands or nations were ruled by kings. At that time, aristocrats grouped themselves and toppled those kings and in place they formed a new government wherein the seat of governing power was the Senate, thereby doing away from Monarchical form of government. The Senate at the beginning was a composition of Aristocrats with the consuls holding the executive powers. The consuls were elected by the Romans for one year term only. There were two consuls commandeering the army when in battle, administering business of the state and supervising financial matters (The World of Rome Chapter 6, p. 147). Likewise, the early Americans seemly basing on the Ancient Roman’s government also revolted against the Great Britain Empire. The Revolution rose up in the 1700’s against Great Britain and founded America as a republic (Brice, 2015 p. 11) where there existed a balance of power. Like the Ancient Rome government, the American Founding Fathers aimed for “distribution of power across different political offices” (Brice, 2015 p. 22). But then, like the Ancient Roman’s Senate model, the U.S. Senate consists of elected officials are acting like the patricians having hereditary
The Republican government of Ancient Rome can be said to be the prototype of the U.S. Constitutional government with emphasis on the word constitution. The United States government is a primarily constitutional government since the constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers has been the most important document since the founding of the country’s government system up to the present (Brice, 2015 p. 1). There are those who contend that the framework from which the Founding Fathers derived their drafted constitution included the established document of the Ancient Romans called The Twelve Tables which could be the model from which U. S. Constitutions was drafted (Brice, 2015). This is one example …show more content…
A common historical knowledge of the United States would bring us back to the revolt of Americans against the English monarchic government. The Civil Wars in the American history in the 1640s showed the culmination of the American’s overthrowing of the Monarchy and the ending of the House of Lords in 1649 (Steel, 2014). The Monarchy and the House of Lords were the political systems of the United Kingdom from where the Americans diverged and brought their own form of governance. In this connection, the Ancient Roman government could have provided model to this part of American history during the time of Roman’s early republic. In those days, around 6th century B.C.E. before the early Roman Republic, lands or nations were ruled by kings. At that time, aristocrats grouped themselves and toppled those kings and in place they formed a new government wherein the seat of governing power was the Senate, thereby doing away from Monarchical form of government. The Senate at the beginning was a composition of Aristocrats with the consuls holding the executive powers. The consuls were elected by the Romans for one year term only. There were two consuls commandeering the army when in battle, administering business of the state and supervising financial matters (The World of Rome Chapter 6, p. 147). Likewise, the early Americans seemly basing on the Ancient Roman’s government also revolted against the Great Britain Empire. The Revolution rose up in the 1700’s against Great Britain and founded America as a republic (Brice, 2015 p. 11) where there existed a balance of power. Like the Ancient Rome government, the American Founding Fathers aimed for “distribution of power across different political offices” (Brice, 2015 p. 22). But then, like the Ancient Roman’s Senate model, the U.S. Senate consists of elected officials are acting like the patricians having hereditary