What elements of the Roman Republican political and legal system appear present in the systems of modern democracies?

In Roman society, there are many similarities to the modern world regarding the political system. In both Rome and America, there is a senate, and one person who had the right to veto the laws put forth by the Senate, the modern day President and in Rome there was the tribune to the pleb, who was the only plebeian represented in the senate that could veto a law.In Rome they had set up their own system of laws a lot like today's own system with consequences for breaking the law, in Rome they were just much more extreme. The Roman society also had political reresentation by all the different parts of Empire so the entire republic was represented like in today's democracies around the world. (Wikipedia)

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