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Their argument isn't that the republic continued on into the empire, but that it was already dead to other things. For example, if a system where an unelected t
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
Their argument isn't that the republic continued on into the empire, but that it was already dead to other things. For example, if a system where an unelected triumvirate holds all the political power is a republic, basically anything is a republic.
- chasil 4y agoThe definition of a republic is itself a nebulous thing. One definition is simply a government that does not have a king. Another is the lack of inherited office. The triumvirates appear to have satisfied both of these simple requirements.