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The possibility was brought up in this thread and it seemed plausible to me. So lets say that Caligula avoids the illness that drove him mad, or at least managed to keep it more-or-less in check, and he continued to 'democratize' the Empire to such a degree that, after his death, Rome is left in a situation that power is balanced between the Emperor and Senate/bureaucracy that is at least partially representative of the middle class. Lets then say that this gets codified into a constitution by someone - I'm not sure who would have had the ability and inclination to do this - and Rome is officially a constitutional monarchy with some real democratic elements.

How does this progress?
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