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The Roman Republic: A Mixed Constitution
The Roman Republic lasts for about 500 years. It is at peace for eight of them. The other year they're at war at least somewhere. So we we bemoan our forever wars and for the Romans, that was kind of aspirational in some way. And this actually neatly gets us to Polybius because Polybius is one of the Greeks that is essentially sitting here theorizing about the Roman constitutional order.