Government & Society of the Roman Republic

This part of the Roman Republic government were all patricians, and were elected officials who served for 1 year.

• Senate

• Assemblies

• Magistrates

• Tribunes

These members of the Roman Republic government were mostly patricians, served for life, and were advisors.

• Senate

• Magistrates

• Consuls

• Tribunes

These two groups made up the third part of the Roman Republic government. They included both patricians and plebeians, and met to either elect or veto. (Select two answers).

• Magistrates

• Assemblies

• Consuls

• Tribunes

Romans felt they had a responsibility to participate in the government, in order to make Rome a better place. This idea is called

• citizenship.

• civic duty.

• checks and balances.

• Cincinnatus.

Like the US government, the Roman Republic was set up with a system of "checks and balances" to ensure that

• everybody would argue all the time.

• no one person or group would have enough power to take over.

• government officials would spy on each other.

• the government would be really complicated.

When the people of Rome got upset because they didn't have a way of knowing what the laws were, government officials responded by

• telling them to be quiet and deal with it.

• writing the laws on tablets and displaying them in the forum.

• assigning an orator to stand in the forum and recite the laws out loud.

• turning the laws into songs so everybody could memorize them.