Rome also had something called the twelve tables this basically like the constitution in the U.S but the twelve to protect the citizens from unfair right because the patricians (rich) and the plebeians (poor) were not seeing eye to eye so for the rich and poor went to civil war and if the rich won nothing would change but if the poor won then there would be change but the civil war went on years and eventually the patricians won the civil war and the plebeians walked out and the patricians realized they needed them so they comprised a way the have equal rights.