Discuss the contributing factors and progress of the fall of the Roman Republic

... Discuss the contributing factors and progress of the fall of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic embraced concepts greater than simply political institutions, forming a way of life that included ideals such as duty and restraint that were in a sense as if not more essential than the actually governmental process. The Republican government was complex with the main elements being the Republic's chief officials (magistrates) who were called Consuls, the aristocratic peers in the Senate and the popular ensembles. This complexity rather than enabling the Republic to adapt to new situations actually caused it's evolution to be held back due to petty internal frictions between it's own separate groups. For example, when the "struggle of the orders" took place due to personal ambitions instead of balancing power between the patricians and the plebeians it actually created a new upper class even more jealous of it's privileges than the first. Yet

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