Download or read book The Senate of the Roman Republic written by Robert C. Byrd and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.