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It has been many years, but concilium plebis made plebiscita that were legally binding for all citizens if I recall. Servius Tullius had also given the vote to
by Joel_Mckay 4y ago
It has been many years, but concilium plebis made plebiscita that were legally binding for all citizens if I recall. Servius Tullius had also given the vote to others not of the original founding tribes.
I do believe you are correct about the Athens origin of the clay shards though. The subject of exile was confused with the story of Cicero, who was a character who traveled an awful lot. ;)
- Attrecomet 4y agoYes, they did have that power. They did not, however, actually use it a lot (at all?) after the Punic wars AFAIK (the senate had in practice taken on the entire government as a war measure, and effectively shut out the tribal assembly of any decision making), and when the assembly again started to wield that it under the Gracchi brothers, they are basically reinventing the participation of the non-senatorial citizens because the old system had effectively lapsed. And we are by that time in the "it started to break" phase.