checks and balances or maybe veto? I don't truly understand your question, sorry.
A huge gap between the rich and the poor, invaders from other places, emperors’ deaths and soldiers who were lazy in doing were duty were some of the reasons that cause the Roman Republic’s fall.
The Western part of Rome’s empire fell because fell because the military meddled a lot in politics and being a member of the political office was seen by people as an accountability. Revolutions, invasions by Christianity and Barbarians, and civil wars also contributed to the Roman Empire’s dissolution. The Eastern empire lasted for several centuries as they had a lot more resource compared to the Western empire.
Gorbachev's best statement about perestroika is that without a perestroika, the cold war would simply not be complete. But the world could not continues to evolve, as it was, with a sharp threat of a nuclear war.
In order to reform the relaxed Soviet Union, the democratization of the Communist Party was promoted through the policy of Mikhail Gorbachev's party "perestroika" and "glasnost". Perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system founded by the Communist Party.
Prestroika means reformation, and volume means openness. The openness is primarily reflected in relations with the West, which gave a major contribution to the end of the Cold War.
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