> In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.) Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to say, but is

> In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.) Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to say, but isn't that's equivalent to "before women's suffrage, if you were a man..." or "before the civil rights movement, if you were white..."? I find it a bit hard to see how that is an argument suggesting that things used to be better? EDIT: Wait, was that your whole point? That a woman or an ethnic minority seeking justice was much worse of a few generations ago?