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Here's an academic article on how ancient Rome influenced the writing of the US Constitution: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3290141 https://www.jstor.org/stable

Here's an academic article on how ancient Rome influenced the writing of the US Constitution: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3290141 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3290141

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> Here's an academic article on how ancient Rome influenced the writing of the US Constitution Influenced. Not modeled on. Every republic since Cæsar has been influenced by Rome, including but not limited to its discussion on the relative benefits of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
- sudosysgen 5y ago
  What Republic has had the most influence on the USA? There were very few republics between the fall of Rome and 1776. All basically local governments and very feeble.
  - JumpCrisscross 5y ago
    > What Republic has had the most influence on the USA? Not a republic, not technically, but the English Parliament, no doubt. Bicameralism, impeachment, an executive cabinet--these did not exist in the Roman Republic. Of course, English democratic tradition was influenced by Rome's. As was America's. But it's a stretch to say the U.S. was "modeled" on the Roman Republic. It was a new system of government. (If one were to claim it was modeled on anything, it would have to be the English government.)
- AdamN 5y ago
  "Modeled on" doesn't mean singularly Rome. It just means that Rome was one of the models.