what form of government was practiced in sparta?
Monarchy Diarchy
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 The monarchy continued the council and most civic institutions , permitting the election of magistrates until 264 . In the absence of the monarch , the city was administered by a viceroy . Although governors of the eastern Roman provinces under Odaenathus ' control were still appointed by Rome , the king had overall authority . During Zenobia 's rebellion , governors were appointed by the queen . 

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 According to historian Andrew Lintott , some scholars doubt this traditional account . They argue that instead of being overthrown , the monarchy evolved into a government led by elected magistrates . Remnants of the monarchy , however , were reflected in republican institutions , such as the office of rex sacrorum ( " king of the sacred " ) and the interregnum ( the period of time presided over by an interrex when the consulship or other magistracy was vacant ) . 

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 During the early years of the republic , the Plebeians were not allowed to hold ordinary political office . In 445 BC , the Plebeians demanded the right to stand for election to the Consulship , but the senate refused to grant them this right . After a long resistance to the new demands , the Senate ( 454 ) sent a commission of three patricians to Greece to study and report on the legislation of Solon and other lawmakers . When they returned , the Assembly ( 451 ) chose ten men -decemviri- formulate a new code , and gave them supreme governmental power in Rome for two years . This commission , under the presidency of a resolute reactionary , Appius Claudius , transformed the old customary law of Rome into the famous Twelve Tables , submitted them to the Assembly ( which passed them with some changes ) , and displayed them in the Forum for all who would and could to read . The Twelve Tables recognised certain rights and gave the plebs their own representatives , the tribunes . However the Consulship remained closed to the Plebeians , Consular command authority ( imperium ) was granted to a select number of Military Tribunes . These individuals , the so @-@ called Consular Tribunes were elected by the Centuriate Assembly , and the senate had the power to veto any such election . This was the first of many attempts by the Plebeians to achieve political equality with the Patricians . Starting around the year 400 BC , a series of wars were fought , and while the Patrician aristocracy enjoyed the fruits of the resulting conquests , the Plebeians in the army became exhausted and bitter . They demanded real concessions , and so in 367 BC a law was passed ( the " Licinio @-@ Sextian law " ) which dealt with the economic plight of the Plebeians . However , the law also required the election of at least one Plebeian Consul each year . The opening of the Consulship to the Plebeians was probably the cause behind the concession of 366 BC , in which the Praetorship and Curule Aedileship were both created , but opened only to Patricians . 

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 Rather than creating a government that was primarily a democracy ( as in ancient Athens ) , an aristocracy ( as in ancient Sparta ) , or a monarchy ( as in the Roman state before and , in many respects , after the Republic ) , the Roman Republic had a mixed constitution , with three separate branches of government : 

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 The democratic element took the form of the legislative assemblies . 
