What did all of this mean for the magistrates?

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Date Change in constitution Key terms
494 Creation of plebeian tribunes secessio tribuni plebis
471 Creation of plebeian assembly concilium plebis plebiscita
451-50 Codification of law (12 Tables) decemviri
449 Plebeian tribunes become inviolable Lex Valeria Horatia sacrosanctitas
445 Intermarriage legalized conubium Lex Canuleia
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370s Anarchy no magistrates with consular imperium
367 Plebeians eligible for consulship Military tribunes with consular power abolished Lex Licinia Sextia
by 342 One consul must be plebeian
ca. 330 Plebeians eligible for all offices Senate now a body of patricians and plebeians Plebeians eligible for all offices Senate now a body of patricians and plebeians
326 Debt-slavery abolished nexum
312 Censor Appius Claudius fails to open Senate to proletarii builds Romes first road (to Campania) Via Appia builds Romes first aqueduct Aqua Appia Censor Appius Claudius fails to open Senate to proletarii builds Romes first road (to Campania) Via Appia builds Romes first aqueduct Aqua Appia
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300 Plebeians eligible for all priesthoods Lex Ogulnia
Right of appeal (provocatio) of capital punishment verdicts Lex Valeria
287 Last secessio Quintus Hortensius ? dictator Last secessio Quintus Hortensius ? dictator
Plebiscita binding on all Plebiscita binding on all
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What did all of this mean for the
magistrates? What did all of this mean for the
assemblies? What did all of this mean for Rome?
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Impact on assemblies magistrates

• Plebeian assembly elects plebeian tribunes and
  aediles becomes the venue for prosecution of
  magistrates by a plebeian tribune
• Centuriate assembly elects consuls, praetors,
  censors becomes main legislative body
• Curiate assembly loses all power and rubber
  stamps conferral of imperium on consuls and
  praetors
• Tribal assembly elects curule aediles and
  quaestors
• Plebeian tribunes can veto any decision taken by
  the Senate

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Impact on Romeafter 200 years of agitation

• plebeians gain full representation in state
  affairs
• plebeians gain full access to magistracies and
  organs of power
• distinctions between plebeians and patricians
  disappear
• new oligarchy formed the well-to-do and not the
  well-born