Rome had three types of government over the 1,200 years of her history: a monarchy for 244 years, a republic for 482 years and rule by emperors for 503 years.
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Rome was an empire under the Republican form of government. The republican form of government collapsed due to civil wars and political infighting. After the battle of Actium, Rome had the one man rule of an emperor, but the empire itself had already been firmly established.
Rome's influence on democracy was directly borrowed from the Greeks in the sense that citizens voted. Rome's influence on government covers a wide range of issues. Most of what we consider personal rights were initiated by the Romans.
This statement mean that the problem or problems came from within the empire (bad government, infighting, crumbling infrastructure, etc.) and not from the outside of the empire. Also there were 8 emperors in the 1st 100 years 29 in the last 100 years. Rome was constantly at civil war with itself while trying to fight of the "barbarians" whom it is really not appropriate to refer to as barbarians as they had control of Rome for the last 50 years or so through puppet emperors. In the end Rome was doomed to fall after Valens waged war on the Goths and Alaric sacked Rome
Praetors:Important government officials in ancient Rome.
Common people had no power against corporations.Was designed to remove politics from municipal administration