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| Basic Function of Assemblies |
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| Elect Magistrates and GIve aproval to laws presented by magistrates |
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| Voting Normally was done ______ |
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| In late Republic Voting was done _______ |
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| all adult male citizens, organized into 193 "centuries" of unequal size based on property, rich votes counted more than poor vote, 'first class' was first 70 centuries (they voted first with twelve equite centuries and 1 artisan century |
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| elect censors, consuls, praetors, declared peace/war, ratified treaties, (occasionally were court for capital cases or enacted laws in VERY late repub.) |
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| Centuriate Presiding Officer |
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| consul, praetor, dictator, interrex |
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| all adult make citizens organized into 35 tribes - citizens only accounted for 4 of these - not property based but poorer struggled with commute, 18 tribes needed to pass law or win election |
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| elect curule aediles, quaestors or lesser positions, enact laws |
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| Tribunal Presiding Officer |
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| consul, praetor, curule aedile |
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| plebians only assembly - divided into 35 tribes |
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| Plebian Assembly Functions |
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| elect tribunes and plebian aediles- after 287 BC the plebiscita allowed for laws to be passed this way, as they usually were after this year |
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| Plebian presiding officer |
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| Plebian assembly Place of Meeting |
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| for election = Campus Martius , for legislation = usually comitium or capitol |
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| for election = Campus Martius , for legislation = usually comitium or capitol |
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| Full public meetings, usually at forum, no laws passed but proposed ones were discussed. Convened by magistrate or priest who controlled who was allowed to speak - some could use platform others couldnt |
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| Offices generally held for _____ and shared with _____ colleague |
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| Progression of career steps |
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| quaestor, praetor, consul |
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| (2 of them) - highest office available - elected every 5 years from ex-consuls. They took census, oversaw morals, and oversaw public contracts |
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| (2 of them) - Highest political office ; elected annually by comitia centuriata to share power, they held imperium (supreme power) including command in war, right to levy armies, interpretation and execution of law, they also presided over senate and general assemblies |
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| (8 of them) Judicial officers, provincial governors, military commanders who also held imperium |
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| (4 of them) Handled games, grain supply, and maintenance of Rome's buildings. 2 HAD TO BE PLEBIANS |
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| (10 of them) Always Plebian. Proposed laws and presided over consilium plebis. and had the power to veto any piece of legislation. Were sacrosanct. |
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| (20 of them) Supervised treasury at Rome or held administrative posts in Italy or were assistants to promagistrates abroad. |
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| 500-600 life long members (Sulla's reforms dictated that quaestorship brought you automatically into Senate). The role was to advise magistrates. Always met indoors at Curia or The Curia Hostilia (a temple). |
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