Which of the following statements identifies a key feature of rome’s patriarchal society?

a. the patriarch of rome was the supreme monarch and had unlimited power.
b. male heads of households held great power and could even kill their own children
c. all inheritances of property passed from wives to their female children.
d. both male and female citizens enjoyed equal rights.

The correct option is B

The family was regulated. The order above all. Each family unit consisted of a paterfamilias or father of a family under whose authority and guardianship was the wife, the children, the slaves of their property and the clients, if this was important enough to have them.

It was composed of all those individuals who were born free living under the proper behavior of a natural and legal parental status, political, economic, religious, etc, civil status and social status in the Roman way, this meant assuming both the protection and the authority of the head of family that could be a pater families and a mater families when the wife widowed.

montesquieu took the view that the roman republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power. in the british constitutional system, montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, parliament, and the courts of law.