Rome

In my attempt to answer question number 1 I am going to say that there was not enough democracy. First of all I want to identify what democracy is. Democracy is government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. I just want to start with a broad idea of how can the optimates believe that they could portray themselves as representing the true essence of Rome? Only if the true essence of Rome was to limit the power of the poor and boast the power of the rich, where the optimates truly betraying the essence of Rome. But I do not believe that the true essence of Rome was that. I believe that the true essences of Rome lay in the hands of the populares. They represented the people and what they believed in. I want to state that I do not think that there was enough democracy in Rome. One idea to back this up was stated very clearly by Polybius, “For if one fixed one's eyes on the power of the consuls, the constitution seemed completely monarchical and r...