Tarquin and government

• Tarquin seized power in the old definition of the word
• Tarquin's Grandfather dies leaving his grandmother to put Servius Tullius into  power because she liked him more than her sons
• ST's daughters marry two brothers, one is Tarquin
• The one daughter killed her sister and her husband leaving Tarquin in line for the throne 
• Tullia persuades Tarquin to seize power from her father
• Tarquin sits on the throne, proclaiming himself king
• he then throws Tullius down the steps of the capital and has him assassinated
• Tullia sees her father's corpse on her way home and then takes the reins on the chariot and runs over his body  
• Tarquin refuses to bury him and assassinates senators who oppose him 
• Tarquin's son Sextus tries to force himself on a matron while out drinking with some friends  
• she refuses which causes him to threaten to kill her
• she gives in to the blackmail
• admits this to her family 
• then kills herself 
• Tarquin tried to hide this, but the people rebel against him and his son and kick the whole family out of Rome
• This families terrible made the people of Rome never want another king 
• The rule of one king is then replaced by the rule of two consuls 
• they were elected and stayed in power for one year 
• all of the patricians could trace their lineage back to one pater 
• they dealt with justice, made the laws, and commanded the army 
• then in the 5th century, the patrician's absolute power in the gov was challenged by the Plebs
• Plebs were 98% of the population 
• plebs forced to serve in the military could not hold office, faced debt slavery no legal rights
• victims of discriminatory decisions in justice 
• Rome had no actual "set in stone laws" (soon to come literally true) just customs
•  Patricians like to use these laws and manipulate them to help them 
• plebs refused military service until the twelve tables, or actual law was used
• Tribunes or tribal leaders were elected 
• SPQR - designates any decree made by the Roman people made by the senate and the people 
• Bran new republic part of the monarchy, democracy, and aristocracy.
• Originally  the US government was based on the roman government 
• but not exactly the same 
• both have three branches and legal code
• rome executive 
• two consuls
• one year term
• each veto power
• controlls military 
• could install dictator if necessary for 6 mo period
• US executive 
• President and VP 
• four-year terms
• can veto proposed laws
• commander in chief of the military 
• Roman Legislative 
• 300 strong senate 
• aristocratic members for life 
• assemblies, centurate or tribal
• 193 members later 373 members for life 
• US legislative 
• senate, 100 two from each state six-year terms 
• house of representatives 435 memebers Md had 8 reps 
• Rome Judicial 
• preators 
• chosen by the centuriate assembly 
• US Judicial 
• supreme court 
• nine members 
• lifetime terms 
• appointed by pres, confirmed by senate
• Rome Legal code 
• twelve tables
• publicaly displayed in the forum 
• gave plebs rights
• only protected free roman born men 
• US leagal code
• bill of rights
• first ten amendments to the constitution 

• 1 - free speech/press/religion

• 2 - bear arms 

• 3 - no quartering 

• 4 - no search and seizure 

• 5 - no self-incrimination 

• 6 - right to fair trial 

• 7 - jury trials 

• 8 - no cruel or unusual punishment 

• 9 - right to privacy, +rights are assumed 

• 10 - states have power where fed doesn’t