... a practice still done today in many countries. As illustrated by the evidence above , Judeo-Christian tradition, Athens, and the roman republic all affected the development of democracy immensely. Even though modern democracy was influenced by many different traditions and governments, the heaviest ... Roman Republic. Many modern day governments are representative democracies like the one in the Rome. Examples would be the United States, Mexico, and Russia. Many countries have an executive such as the President of the U.S., or the Roman consuls. Then they have a legislative branch such a...

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... they formed a new type of government that had three branches in order to balance out power between the three. It was called the consuls, senate, and assemblies. It is similar to our form of government, which is legislative, executive, and judicial. This sounds similar to the government ... parks, public libraries, and plazas. The Romans planned to construct their cities on highly planned grids, including everything from numbered signposts every Roman mile, which indicated such things as the distance to the next town, to extensive networks of underground lead pipe, supplying clean water....

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