The leader Tarquin took control, and forced Rome to change its views on tyranny. Tarquin took control when a women named Tullia killed her own husband and sister so she could marry Tarquin. Then Tullia told Tarquin to kill her father, and when he removes him from the throne, she runs his father over with her chariot. Tarquin tried to cover for his son, Sextus, and a matron. The people of Rome got so upset that they decided to kick him out,and tyrany with it.
The plebs, or what we might consider regular citizens, didn't have any rights, and made up pretty much all of the population. Also, like our form of government there are three branches that were put in place. Instead of one president, there were two consuls who only had a one year term. In the legislative branch, there are two different sets of people; a senate, which had a fixed number of people, and also a group that could change size depending on the population count. Finally, they both have a judicial branch, except the judges back then were called Praters, and only had one year terms.
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