From: Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:41:25 -0400 >On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:42 PM, Timothy Nelson wrote: > >> _Teckla_ does indeed mention a Teckla Republic. I was mostly wondering >> what >> people thought about the conditions at the time, and whether the >> "Emperor" >> would be elected. (After all, no matter how much political power the >> senate >> would have, the orb has to sit on somebody.) >> > >Before Julius Caesar, the Roman Senate elected a consul as head of >state, usually two, to rule for a year. I imagine the Teckla have >something similliar. Er. _Always_ two consuls, except for Pompey the Great's year as the consul without a colleague, which was mostly to annoy the Boni. Julius Caesar himself was a consul twice, and Augustus was, technically, elected a consul, although no one would've been caught dead running _against_ him. ¬ MJ, who likes Romans.