Re: CHAT: Democracy

I wrote:

> In comparison, the Roman Senate lasted far beyond the death of any
> real control over policy.  It survived mostly as a municipal council during
> the late Empire, and IIRC is now, officially, just the Curia of the Catholic
> Church in the Vatican.
I just realized I might be misleading here.  The Roman Senate was never
a popular assembly in any real sense of the word;  it was an oligarchic
body that represented the interests of the landed traditional elite and the
capitalists.  I just wanted to show how institutional bodies, though given
the same name, may change greatly in function over time.

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