In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYIn the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYBy pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThis may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today .
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYAlthough commenting on issues of current importance was more common.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYAnd each candidate for office competed as an individual.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYOnly rarely did they advocate specific policies.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYAt Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties although given the stifling impact of these.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThus the Western Empire died.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYAlmost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.
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