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Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The execution thing can be approached through an actual bill of rights guaranteeing things like freedom of speech, and a presumption of innocence.

Which raises the question of whether there should be a independent judiciary outside the cursus honorum, or whether judgeships are part of it, and whether supreme judicial power rests with the senate or an independent court.

IMO "no independent judiciary" means that legal guarantees are more conventions than really binding. OTOH having an independent judiciary changes the republic massively, IMO too much. Maybe no independent judiciary in general, but some sort of constitutional council made up of all former consuls and censors with the power to veto convictions ?