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The story of Tarquin was so horrible that it made Rome not want to have a king ever again. The city was traumatized by all the horrible things Tarquin and his family had done. Tarquins wife had killed her ex husband and Tarquins ex wife just so she could be with Tarquin, Tarquins son tried to rape and women and he did by blackmailing her, Tarquin and his wife tried to throw out Tarquins wife father in ruling and they did and associated him. Tarquin did so many nasty things and he should've never became king.

The structure of the Rome government was two consuls, that replaced the ruling of kings. Consuls were elected for one year and they were always patricians. They had to make laws, command the army, etc. Later on the plebian tried t challenge the patricians ruling and the plebs were most of the population but they had no legal rights. Eve though they had no written rights, Rome never had actual written laws, patricians just took advantage of the power they had. Therefore the plebeians went on strike of serving the military until the 12 tables were written out. Then there was a brand new republic that involved democracy,  aristocracy, monarchy, and not a tyranny. The us government is so similar to ancient Romes government, it did have differences but many similarities. One similarity was that the both had 3 branches of government, legislative, judicial and executive.  The twelves tables of Rome was similar to the United States Bill of Rights.

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