Talk:Democracy in Ancient Rome

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This text was originally from History of democracy, however it was was felt to be too focused on Roman history to be relevant to a history of democracy. This text was taken directly from that article and placed here. If it can be absorbed into another article, or if it too similar to articles on Roman History, then perhaps it should be deleted. rakkar 02:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I think the title is misleading

The problem is that Ancient Rome was never a democracy, it was a republic. These are two different things!

For example, to be a member of the Senate you must have land, money and influence, clearly making the system not a democratic! In a democracy according to law everybody must have access to power.

It is true though that there were democratic elements in the Republic of Rome but that's it.

So can we rename it, into "Democracy in the Republic of Ancient Rome" or something else? A.Cython (talk) 11:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)