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The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* as it retains the Roman Republic's setup: - Sovereign / House of Lords (Senate) / Lower house. The US Foundi
by noir-york 8y ago
The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* as it retains the Roman Republic's setup: - Sovereign / House of Lords (Senate) / Lower house.
The US Founding Fathers copied England, and Rome's model but replaced the sovereign with a President.
Representative democracies are necessarily republics - although some, like my country, skip the upper house. Rome introduced consuls / republican model because the population was too large, unlike the Greek polis, to be politically manageable. Rome of course was not a democracy.
*or monarchic. I am away from my books so cannot confirm exactly the term. Sorry.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* as it retains the Roman Republic's setup: - Sovereign / House of Lords (Senate) / Lower house. Republican Rome was distinguished from both preceding and succeeding Roman governments by not having a sovereign head.
- noir-york 8y agoYep, Augustus didn't like sharing power :D He must have felt guilty about it though because the Empire post-republic tried to keep up the appearance of Rome as Republic, if not in substance.
- spiralx 8y ago> The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* It's a constitutional monarchy based on a parliamentary system.