POLITICAL+BREAKDOWN

we get our government from the Romans, with checks and balences and three branches
 * POLITICAL BREAKDOWN**
 * __consul__(2 people) exetuive branch,
 * can only be consul one year at a time and only revoted in after 10 years
 * supposed to be at least 42 and have held all previous offices (cursus honorum)
 * preside in meetings, control navy
 * __Senate__Aristocracy
 * Real owner, controlled $, fathers passed positions to their sons thus providing wealth, influence, political/military expierence and control
 * Gives everybody advise, people tend to take senates advice
 * __People/assemblies__the democratic part
 * 193 centuries, all getting one vote, and everybody belongs to a century
 * 98 of the centuries are majority particians
 * thus, they could always win
 * they had a lock on structure of gov’t