#republictoempire

Rome's transition from a republic to an empire was through a series of steps. In the first step, we have a few elite's who determine the rules and live breaking the rules if they wish. Next came a set of rules known as the Twelve Tables which discouraged doing "bad" things among other things. After this step, things started to become more aristocratic, and the higher classes could corrupted the government completely if they pleased. With all this corruption, voting never really mattered anymore because the few in charge would rig it. Soon a singular leader emerged as an emperor who would always be "voted" back every year, bringing Rome to an empire.