how did the ofice of dictator contribute to the balance and stability of the roman republic?

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

When partisan strife had grown too great or a foreign enemy threatened, the Senate could vote the office of dictator to one person for six months. The important thing was that the office of dictator expired in six months. An example from the early republic is Cincinnatus. He was a Roman landowner, an ancient Ben Cartwright, who worked his own Ponderosa. The story is that senators had to come to his farm and pull him, all unwilling, from behind his plow to serve the republic. The moral is that in the early republic men did not become dictators gladly.

Answer 3

In the same way that a machine gun could contribute to balance and stability in most settings: fear and intimidation. Sulla was the first to expand the powers of the dictatorship, ushering in an era of distrust, violence and execution without trial. Caesar used it to protect his legislation and himself. In both cases, it could be argued that Rome 'settled down' at the cost of freedom. Augustus, intent upon appearing to be only the 'first among equals' (princeps) abolished the office.