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By the 1st Century BC, it was clear that the Roman Republic was in serious peril. Foreign wars, economic turmoil, ambitious generals (Sulla, Marius, Caesar, Pompey), political gridlock, decreasing respect for constitutional law, and everything else. But was it doomed? Was it inevitable that the Republic would either collapse or fall into the one-man imperial rule that it did IOTL? Or was it possible that the Republic could survive and emerge with its governing institutions intact, at least in large degree?
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