Modern America

In Thomas Paines excerpt describing America in 1971, he provides many key points explaining what America was then and it gives a great basis to compare to what it is now. He starts off explaining tthat America is a melting pot of people of all different nationalities and cultures, then he moves onto the civil unison of our government and people, and lastly he talks about taxes and the rich vs. the poor.

Romans were a civilization that originated after the Greek culture. They, like Greeks, saw an extreme significance in the idea of a love for one’s country and loyalty. The Romans, however, were more concerned with public affairs such as education, sanitation, and health. They held a strong connection with their ancestors and wished to imitate what the ancient Romans did. Although Romans rejected the idea of a Rex, or king, they favored the common hero. They wanted a leader who a “regular Joe”, someone who was average and could still led an average life after doing extraordinary things. The Romans also had a very defined government that was broken into consuls, senate, and assembly. There were two consuls who served in place of the king as the leaders of the Roman Empire. Next in succession was the senate, comprised only of patricians who debated and passed legislation. Finally, there was the assembly made for the plebeians to approve laws.

Roman culture is a lot like the United States. From the government to the activities to the impact on the places and countries around them. Rome and the United States both used the three branches of government, which are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. All the citizens in Rome had to abide by rights and laws made by the branches of government just like the citizens of the United States. Another things their government has in common is that they both use the veto, which was the right to reject a decision by the law-makers. Both of the governments also would have a higher chance of being in debt because both of their imports were greater than their exports. Rome and the United States also both had places for entertainment and played some of the same sports.

Both Romans and Americans are known for allowing their conquered to enjoy a certain amount of liberty. A less glorious similarity is the Roman and American social welfare systems. Straying from using the imagination and classical problem solving, both civilizations have expended their resources to quiet the cries of the hopeless, without building any hope for their unfortunate citizens. Roman law influenced much of the American legal system, especially in the area of criminal justice. America has followed in the footsteps of the Romans in many ways, for better or for worse.

First, The Roman Republic had three main units and other small branches, much like America’s government. For the first main unit, there is a dictator that was elected by the people and took total control of Rome during a crisis, such as food shortages, wars, and other things. The second main unit is the Senate that collected taxes and passed all of the laws. For the last unit there are the Consuls that had control over the military when not in a crisis. They were elected by majority like America’s government. They also chose the senate members. And that is how Ancient Rome’s government worked.

Three differences of the U.S. and Rome is the U.S. doesn’t have a monarchy like Rome it has a democracy where the people vote for a leader, but in a monarchy there is a set leader where they are the king and their child is first in line. The Roman Empire had blood sports for entertainment where people died, but in the U.S. we watch violent sports, but rarely ever do people die during the sport we even have really peaceful sports like golf. The Roman Empire had led pipes and slaves, but the U.S. has better

During Ancient Rome there was many different political systems used. They had dictatorships,empires,monarchy, triumvirate, and democratic republic. In Ancient Greece there was oligarchy and democracy.the 2 main political systems that were different was a oligarchy and democratic republic. One main difference between these two ancient civilizations was who had power. The first time in history where more than 2 or 3 people had power was a democratic republic. A democratic republic is both a republic and a democracy. This means that most of the power is in the citizens vote. A oligarchy is a group of people who make all the decisions but the citizens do not have a say. In Rome the people were able to vote, make decisions, and pick their leaders;

Both Rome and America have an one leader system with a group of people behind that one person. In Rome the leader choose to listen to the Senate. With American modern government the Senate has almost all the power. The President can do very few things without the Senate’s approval. On the other hand Rome’s leader called emperors could do whatever they wanted they did not listen to Senate. The Senate

Rome and the United States are similar in many ways. Rome, at one point, was an advanced civilization that was ruled by a democracy. Also, in the beginning the great Roman Empire was not even a great power, just as the United States was in the 1700’s. During the United States’ rise, however, they

After being mistreated by their last king, Romans didn’t want to be controlled by one supreme ruler. So, they formed a republic, where each citizen has the right to vote to pass laws and elect officials. This system worked for centuries, in such a way that no one person or group of people was more powerful than another. Rome’s government had many ways to balance power.

The United States of America has some problems today, but they aren't similar to those experienced by ancient Rome. One of Rome’s biggest problems was the rise of the Huns in Asia. Another of Rome’s problems was that the Empire was split into two parts by this time. The last problem is that Rome was no longer a true democracy by this time. I believe America’s problems aren’t similar to Rome’s because the strength of their military, their country splitting, and their government.

It can be normal that people consider many similarities between U.S and Rome as dominant powers, global influence, open society, culturally similar, etc. but there are some notable differences clarifying that U.S. can not be the new Rome as some people think. Starting with the community of each country; in U.S social classes exist that are upper class, new money, Middle class, Working class, Working poor, Poverty level where Rome has space for middle class, they were always a slaveholding when U.S started out as a slaveholding polity, “Rome was always a slaveholding polity with the profound moral and social retardation that this implies; America started out as a slaveholding polity and decisively cast slavery aside.” During the time pass we

The great leader, Augustus, developed Rome into a Republic system of government. A republic system of government is where there is someone who leads but the citizens have a right to vote for what they believe. America, like Rome is run under democracy. With a nation that everyone is equal and has a right to vote, power is not over given and the leader can not make choices without the majority of the citizens agreeing. Another aspect of Rome that made it stable was it´s military. Unlike other empires, Rome had advanced technology and tactics during their time. One example of their advance military technology is the pilum, according to Naked Science, “It´s [the pilum] designed to pierce people, to pierce armour, pierce their shields. Rome was able to conquer vast amounts of land. America´s military, just like Rome's military is one of the most advanced of its time. In America the government supplies infrastructures for the military to test out the advanced war items that they're using. One of the most known areas that the government develops war tactics and technology is Area 51. Because of many places to test military tactics, America is able to defeat countries where there is no freedom. In Mesopotamia, Alexander the great conquered land and gained gold, silver, iron, copper, fish, minerals and other natural resources (slideshare). Alexander was able to develop a stabe economy and job stability with the natural resources. In America, there are natural resources like ¨water, wind and the sun… plants and animals... crude oil, coal, and natural gas as well as minerals¨ (TheBalance.) America is able to use natural resources and gain money and build a stable

This essay will examine the rise of “modern America”, there were economic, religious, and aspect of life changes took place and it was greatly changed the Americans society’s perceptions, specifically, the north and the south. The rise of “modern America” was greatly motivated immigrants to come to the United States for economic opportunity, industrialization in the North after the civil war created new businesses and job regulations, and the demand for social changes; all of these factors shaped America socially, politically, and economically.

At the end of the monarchy in 509BC, Rome expelled the old kingship and introduced the new political system, the Roman republic. (Zetzel) argues that in a monarchy “there is no holy bond or trust” and because of the importance of popular sovereignty there was no appeal to maintain the monarchy and therefore resulting in the rise of the mixed constitution. The mixed constitution allowed a balanced government which resulted in the combination of the monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. The constitution of the Roman republic was not a written document but rather a system of constant change, evolution and development (Lackoff). The Roman republic comprised of two classes: the patricians class who derived from their aristocratic families and the plebeians who were everyone else in the state. The combination of all three constitutions provided a share of power among both classes in order to lessen the difference of wealth between all the citizens in the Roman society (Lackoff). In this essay I aim to show who ruled the Roman republic by looking at the three most important institutions. Firstly, we will look at the importance of the legislative assemblies and how it relates to a democracy. Secondly, we will look at how the aristocratic senates play a major role in the ruling of the state and the influence they have within the mixed constitution. Thirdly, we will look at the highest ranked institution, the consul and see how they relate to the monarchy and the powers they possess as