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It was a day that will always be remembered in the history of democracy. The death of a villain led to the birth of a republican state in which "Senatus populusque Romanus," could be heard shouted by the massive crowds of people. the senate and the Roman people as the core of Roman Republic. dictatorship is unconstitutional Antitheses of a democratic system Julius Caesar's most famous accomplishments include the conquest of Gaul and the invasion …

…Rome a rational means of recording time. A number of senatorial families, however, felt that Caesar threatened their position, and his honors and powers made them fear that he would become a rex (king), a title they, as Republicans, hated. Accordingly, in 44 BC, an assassination plot was hatched by a group of senators, including Gaius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus. On March 15 of that year, when Caesar entered the Senate house, the group killed him.