Roman Republic

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Roman Republic

• Governmental Changes
• 2 Consuls pick up kings imperium and symbols
  (sella curulis lictors with fasces)
• Served one
  year
• 
  Elected by Comitia Centuriata
• 
  After the year, become Senators

2
Other Magistrates

• Praetors judicial
• Quaestors financial
• Censors taxes citizen status
• All from Patrician Classes

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Conflict of Orders

• Plebeian Issues
• Military obligations states dependence on
  them. Rewards?
• Problems of debt
• Price and supplies of grain

4
Gradual Compromises

• Tribunes of the Plebes (plebeian magistrates)
• 450/451 BC Twelve Tables codified customs and
  traditions Maintained Status Quo
• 4th Century
• Attempts to control interest rates usury
• New land acquired by war distributed to poor
• Greater authority to peoples assemblies
• By 367 plebeians could hold the consulship
• By 351 plebeians could hold the censorship

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3rd 2nd Centuries

• Aristocracy of birth and wealth slowly replaced
  by aristocracy of office.
• Nobiles families with at least one consul
• Novus homo New man first consul in family