Roman Constitution Corrupt

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The Roman constitution was unfortunately easily corrupted and as a result the Romans were ran by elected officials that were tend to be easily corrupted and did not treat everyone equally. I think that in our modern world we still have elected officials that tend to be easily corrupted but in our constitution there is no laws that would make it easy like the Romans had. However, officials still find a way to get money from influencers to corrupt them, for example making charity company is one way to get corrupted, many elected officials have gotten money from donors and been put in high positions in government. I see how the Roman officials were easily corrupted because one of their laws in their constitution was that you can pay someone to …show more content…
For example, a Hillary Clinton donor received a top spot on the State Department intel board for donating one million dollars to her charity. Moreover, the Romans did not have a law that made everyone equal that just did not exist in their constitution making everyone to be treated differently based on their wealth, gender, and citizenship. Such as women had no voting power or wouldn't be aloud to hold office and if you had money you had all the power, the average people didn't have a say on anything. It seems that this is very relatable to the U.S. because women were not able to vote in the founding of the U.S. it took almost 150 years for women to vote and it took almost 200 years for african american to vote and have equality. I think that there's more inequality specifically between the rich and poor. The Romans created a perfectly balanced government system of consuls, senate, assembly, plebeian council, tribunes, governors, aedile, and censor that would keep Rome in