The office of dictator in Roman Republic was a position that could be filled only at the most critical of times. Cincinnatus, (the name sake for Cincinnati) served as a dictator for only 16 days, swiftly defeated the Volpi, then willingly relinquished his authority, and was like I’m going back to my farm bye

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one of the great achievements of humanity is its ability to evolve societies complex enough to not need dictatorships, but simple people unable to bear the burdens of complexity will always prefer dictators.

Republicanism though was much less like what the US is familiar with and also very unlike Republican under French Revolution times, it was a senate system + consuls, assemblies and magistrates and various checks and balances to keep patrician families in check from accumulating too much power

There was a lot of evolution in the executive, judicial branches throughout history of course that led to the US constitution and form of government- a lot of trial and error of humanity as species. As our needs continue to evolve it will evolve in different ways as well but generally it also hasn’t changed too much

Yea, very different from the US system, which is in great need of further evolution. Newer democratic systems (compared to the US system) in the world have arguably better mechanics in many aspects. Always room for improvement.