Your Senate was chosen from among the patrician class. Our Senate, here in the United States, is chosen from among the obstructionist class. But don't get me wrong, Roman Senate, you were terrible. Best wishes, John Green. So did Caesar destroy the Roman Republic? Well, he started a series of civil wars, he seized power for himself, he subverted the ideas of the Republic, he changed the Constitution. But he's only really to blame if he was the first one to do that.