How was the roman empire system of government similar to many of today's western european governments

The Roman Empire was ruled by an Emperor. BUT, we also saw the first glimpses of a representative republic, in which we vote on candidates to represent us in government. This is what the US has today. You may hear people infer that we are a democracy, or a democratic republic. But this is not true because in a democracy, it is majority wins; much like ancient greece. In our society we are a republic, which comes from democracy. The romans beleived it to be fair so they adopted this form of government from the Greeks (obviously changed a couple things) and they copied many other things from the greeks.

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