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Persuasive Speech To A Roman Republic

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My fellow Romans, As of two days ago, 14 Februarius, I have been given the honor to lead and guide this astonishing republic toward triumph and prosperity. Due to my unyielding and solid past around the Mediterranean, I will make Rome great again with some of the most splendid and superb reforms this glorious land has ever received. My first and foremost action that I plan to take is reconstructing how we treat our soldiers and past soldiers. They are not nearly paid as much as they deserve to be and their service, unfortunately, is more than forgotten after they have served our republic. Due to our recent success in Northern Africa, I plan to give our veterans the land they have previously fought for in honor of their great duty and sacrifice …show more content…

I plan to set up the first successful republic without a tax system. If I am able to pull this great reform off, we shall go down in history as the most prosperous and flourishing empire. I also plan to explore more land to further help the republic by hopefully creating more colonies around our land. I also plan to greatly increase our senate for more voices and opinion. It is crucial that we entrust more senate seats to people who are well-educated. The more the merrier. Another growing concern among society these days are the gangs that roam the streets of cities. I will put a complete end to these interrogating, unsafe gangs by creating a just and fair police force around our land to arrest these men. This will make us all as safe as possible, which means very much to me. Before I leave you, my dear Romans, I have two last reforms. The first one may appeal to you beautiful women. If you are able to birth a certain amount of babies, I shall reward you for your services to our society for increasing our population to make the Republic great again. I also intend to make it much easier to become a citizen, especially for the people that we have conquered. Most of the people from Gaul mean no harm and I believe they could only do good in helping our society. We are the greatest republic there has ever been, we shall include people from all walks of

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