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Part One: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State

Behind the Bastards

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Are We Just Going to Fuck the Senate?

Tiberius and his allies presented a land reform bill directly to the assembly without letting the senate debate it. This was not illegal, but most miorum says that you don't propose a law to the public without letting the Senate debate it. The rich people are like, ok, well, i guess fuck all the things that we used to do, like now now now there's no rules, right? So we're just going toFuck and do it. And so suddenly, thousands and thousands of people start heading into rome, including italians, who agree with this, like, land reform bill.

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