Roman influence on the U.S. Government

Sophie Kate Guillory

When examining the United States government there are very similar parallels to the Roman government system. For example, you see in the U.S. the government is ruled by the rich and wealthy, even though we call ourselves a democracy; similarly, the Roman government was ruled by the aristocrats, the wealthier part of Roman society. Also, the U.S. government is a Democratic Republic which was influenced by the Roman Republic. Lastly, I found information on something called the Twelve Tables that existed in the Roman government, which when I further looked at what the Twelve Tables was realized it is the same thing as the U.S. Constitution. It is very evident that the U.S. gained a lot of influence from the Roman Republic, and what I mentioned was hardly scraping the surface of the similarities between the two.