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Haha, good one. Neither were democracies in the modern sense, in both cases voting right were so restrictive that large parts of the population did not matter.
Imagine a first past the post system but instead of states, you are grouped together by income.
And instead of voting simulaneously, the richest blocks votes first.
And now imagine, that 50% of the american populace gets one of 150 electors.
The vast majority of romans IN ROME never got to vote on any of the important positions.
You compare a flawed democracy to a non-democracy. Imagine moving the poorer half of America to one state, giving that state a single elector and letting them only vote if the vote so far has been perfectly split.
The US is on paper a flawed democracy and in reality an even more flawed democracy. The roman democracy did not even exist on paper.
Maybe its not that deep, i just don't like when people call Rome a democracy, when it did really come close to one. Or compare them to modern systems of government.