Could Rome Have Remained a Republic?

Rome transitioned from a republic to an empire after power shifted away from a representative democracy to a centralized imperial authority, with the emperor holding the most power.

Was the Roman republic doomed to fail?

The republic that had existed for over 400 years had finally hit a crisis it couldn't overcome. Rome itself wouldn't fall, but during this period it lost its republic forever. ... There was no political violence, land theft or capital punishment, because those went against the political norms Rome had established.

What caused Rome to no longer be a republic?

Internal turmoil provoked in 133 BC by economic stagnation in the city of Rome , slave revolts without, and dissension in the military precipitated a period of unrelenting political upheaval known as the Roman Revolution, the Late Roman Republic , or the Fall of the Republic, 133-27 BC.