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Accountability was an essential and adequate shift that happened in an appropriate time in history. I say it was an appropriate time because without accountability, we would have never known how life was like without citizen input. In other words, by not having it, we learned even more to appreciate it and learned how society was different without it. Prior to the Roman Republic, laws were made simply to create and maintain order in society. They were made with little if any democracy or interest of the people. They were more of efficient laws rather than good and effective laws. However, when the rise of the Roman Republic occurred, accountability came into action and laws were made with more interest in the general public than ever before, and not made with no purpose. If the government was willing to give the right for people to influence the government, than they clearly cared about integrating and acknowledging those opinions and ideas. Accountability means respecting people while creating laws, and I think that is a very important shift that occurred a long time ago, but the issue is still addressed today, and will still be apparent in the future. Without the citizens being accounted for, we would not have many of the human or civil rights we have today. People's voice while creating laws is vital because laws are followed best when the majority of the people agree and are willing to accept them. Without accountability, society would most likely be more chaotic and negative a lot of the time. People would complain and I feel like accountability was one of the first steps towards democracy. Without accountability, the governing body and their processes would look more like monarchies, or totalitarianism, or anything far from democracy. The Roman Republic, "created a sense of accountability for all," which was why they were so significant.