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The preceding description of the republican political system raises the question: Why, unlike her Greek sisters, did Rome never become a full-fledged democracy? The answer, in turn, may open an avenue to the fascinating problem which factors, by contrast to Greece, conditioned the stability of a political ordering that endured through close to five centuries.1
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© 1973 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Loewenstein, K. (1973). A Postscript Why the Roman Republic Never Became a Democracy. In: The Governance of ROME. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2400-6_9
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