By Selwyn Duke

If the people won’t change the government, change the people.

Much like today’s United States, the Roman Empire was a polyglot, multicultural realm encompassing disparate peoples. Unlike us, Rome got that way via invasion — not through inviting one. But Rome did enjoy one advantage vis-à-vis preserving the empire: Its restless foreign subjects couldn’t vote. How long would Rome have lasted and its government remained “Roman” if they could have?

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