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Election day! Vote against the Optimates, and for Populares downballot! (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't doubt for a second that he would have tried to reform and change the system. I just doubt whether he could have succeeded or not.

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Reform, quite possibly, but in what way? To what degree? The Republic's constitution was a mess, and I don't know that there was any salvaging it without rebuilding it from the ground up - or scrapping it, as Augustus effectively did.