Rome's republican form of limited, representative government and her reverence for the rule of law are two of her greatest contributions to Western civilization and the foundations for Western political theory and practice.
The idea which the Founding Fathers borrowed directly for the Romans was the power to veto.
Out of all the many contributions that the Romans bequeathed to western political thinking perhaps the greatest was the concept of an individual's rights or civil rights.
Work of Greek city-states and polis.
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Its the political philosophy that derived from the Greeks.
The sources of Western political thought are Athens and Jerusalem. Athens represents Greek and Roman thought, while Jerusalem represents Jewish and Christian thought.
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