Benedict Arnold went into a meeting to convince the Patriots not to surrender to the British.
The ancient Roman republic had three branches of government. In the beginning, the legislative branch was the Senate, a group made up of 300 citizens from Rome's patrician class, the oldest and wealthiest families of Rome. It was the patricians, tired of obeying the king, who revolted and threw out Tarquinius Superbus.
He combined vertical and horizontal integration.