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Censorship In The Roman Kingdom

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"But he who greatly excels in beauty, strength, birth, or wealth, or on the other hand who is very poor, or very weak, or very much disgraced, finds it difficult to follow rational principle" (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4, 4.11) Every country was first born through the discovery of new lands, then the battles of power and dominance, learned experience from failed mistakes and the skill of compromise to keep peace with its inhabitants. While a ruling king may have been necessary for times in early Mesopotamia or ancient Egypt, we see the Roman Kingdom begin its painful growth of expelling its kingpin and slowly developing into a republic. It created government offices such as the tribune of the people and the censorship in a struggle to remain in control, but in the end, the people fought for their rights. …show more content…

Tarquinius was a tyrant who believed in total despotism and is said to have murdered his father-in-law among other senators. The people in the Roman Kingdom could no longer tolerate Tarquinius and banished him and his family from the kingdom in 510 BCE, leaving his two consuls, the patricians and the plebeians, in charge of the kingdom. The patricians and the plebeian were both elected by the people for a term of one year, neither had power over the other and they did not have power over life and death within the Roman Kingdom. There was still the division of classes, the rich versus the poor, and thus, there were ongoing struggles and strife between the two parties as they fought for ruling favor within their

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