ROME VS. UNITED STATES(A COMPARATIVE STUDY)
...of government. The United States Gov’t includes the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, while the Roman Gov’t consisted of the Senate, popular assemblies, and magistrates. These are but a few of the congruencies that will be discussed in this paper. Rome came under Etruscan rule in 600 B.C. Approximately 509 B.C., as part of a region wide revolt against Etruscan rule, the Roman aristocracy threw out Tarquinius Superbus, the last of the Etruscan monarchs. In a similar fashion, a few citizens of England came, as representatives of King George to inhabit and colonize the “New World” (the US), in 1607. It wasn’t until the Revolutionary War that citizens of the United States declared independence from England. In the absence of a monarchy, both the Roman Empire and the United States set up a republic. From the beginning of Rome’s ...