6. roman citizens in the republic were able to choose officials to represent their 7. the judicial system of the roman republic provided a __ 8. what was the role of the roman patricians? what did they form? 9. what was the purpose of the twelve tables? how did it reduce conflict between roman plebeians and patricians? 10. where did roman citizens gather to vote? 11. each body of government serves a special purpose and holds different roles. what do the senate and assemblies create? the consuls? the praetors? 12. what was the purpose of appointing two consuls during the roman republic? 13. why did romans develop a democratic government during the roman republic?

6.interests
7.code of law
8. patricians were ruling class of the republic. they form a senate
9.the purpose of the twelve tables was codification of law, the main point in reduction of conflict was that    since now on law is written and no longer interpret by patricians only
10.forum romanum 
11. senate and assemblies create legislation and control finances. the consuls were head of government and all magistrates  and held 'imperium' power over military. the praetors held judicial power 
12. to avoid situation where one person gain too much power, other purpose was case of military campaign or external affairs, when one consul was away from rome the second could stay in the city
13. the roman republic was unusual mixture of democracy and oligarchy, main reason of developing democratic institutions was army, army was fundamental for rome and it consisted only of roman citizens, as the roman people bear the heaviest burden of both serving and pay taxes on the military there was a need of a system which allowed citizens to aprticipate in system of governing