What groups today uses the same methods as plebeians did?

Sometime before the first surviving written historical account, Rome was controlled by the Etruscans, a brutal civilization from the northern part of the Italian peninsula. Etruscan kings rained terror for more than a century until the Romans rebelled and expelled their ruler in 509BCE.

The early Romans were miserable living under a king, so they created a republic, a form of government in which elected officials share power.