Passage 1: "Historian Lena Marsh argues that the decline of the Roman Republic was primarily driven by structural economic inequality — the concentration of land in the hands of a senatorial elite left the plebeian class economically dispossessed and politically volatile." Passage 2: "Recent scholarship by Devraj Nair contends that the Roman Republic's collapse owed far more to the breakdown of elite political norms — specifically, the willingness of ambitious men like Sulla and Caesar to override senatorial convention — than to the material grievances of the lower classes, who had endured similar conditions for centuries without revolutionary consequence." Which statement best describes the relationship between the two passages?

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