Was Rome ever really free?

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity it included ... was furthered by a degree of social stability and economic prosperity that Rome had never before experienced. ... Free people not considered citizens, but living within the Roman world, held status as peregrini, non-Romans.

well it definitly does because if you are seen as weak you will be seen as unimportant and they will walk all over you and the us is the most powerful military and the largest in the world

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the puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the church of england the common unity strengthened the community.