@PugJesusM to Rough Roman MemesEnglish • 2 months agoElection day! Vote against the Optimates, and for Populares downballot!imagemessage-square10arrow-up143arrow-down11
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minus-square@njm1314linkEnglish2•2 months agoI don’t doubt for a second that he would have tried to reform and change the system. I just doubt whether he could have succeeded or not.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish1•2 months agoReform, quite possibly, but in what way? To what degree? The Republic’s constitution was a mess, and I don’t know that there was any salvaging it without rebuilding it from the ground up - or scrapping it, as Augustus effectively did.
I don’t doubt for a second that he would have tried to reform and change the system. I just doubt whether he could have succeeded or not.
Reform, quite possibly, but in what way? To what degree? The Republic’s constitution was a mess, and I don’t know that there was any salvaging it without rebuilding it from the ground up - or scrapping it, as Augustus effectively did.