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Were the powers separated in Rome?
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Were the powers separated in Rome?

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Michael G. Heller
May 21, 2023
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I previously very briefly introduced four concepts of differentiation — individual (prehistory), group-over-person (egalitarianism), person-over-group (chiefdom), and administrative (early state with an apex). We turn now, again briefly, to a fifth type of society that I tentatively refer to as one of ‘participatory differentiation’.

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