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1206:) who then counted the ballots and reported the results to the presiding magistrate. The majority of votes in each tribe decided how that tribe voted. The presiding magistrate (either a consul or a praetor) ensured that each tribe had at least five members voting; if a tribe did not, then individuals from other tribes were reassigned to the vacant places in that tribe. The order in which the tribes voted was determined by lot. An urn into which lots were cast was brought in. From this point, the plebeian tribunes were not allowed to exercise their right to veto. The first tribe to vote was called 1143:(priests who performed augury), either in attendance or on-call, who would be available to help interpret the omens of the gods. The meeting could only proceed if the omens were favourable. On several occasions, presiding magistrates claiming unfavourable omens suspended sessions that were not going the way they wanted. If after the assembly, the augurs decided that some formality had been neglected, its vote became void. In the case of elections, those persons who had been elected to an office had to resign. 1456:
during the census, and the names of citizens and their families were entered in the registers of the tribes. Lintott notes that "the tribe was the critical indicator of Roman citizenship" for the adult sons of Roman fathers and also for "those incorporated into the citizen body from the outside". A man who came of age was enrolled as an adult in the tribe of his father, and could change it only through adoption into another family. Inhabitants of
44: 649:: four urban tribes of the citizens in the city of Rome, and thirty-one rural tribes of citizens outside the city. Each tribe voted separately and one after the other. In each tribe, decisions were made by majority vote, and its decision counted as one vote regardless of how many electors each tribe held. Once a majority of tribes had voted in the same way on a given measure, the voting ended, and the matter was decided. 851: 932:(the assembly of the soldiers, another voting assembly), a deviation from correct procedure found in the late Republic, or instances in which these officials had the plebeian tribunes propose bills for them. Lintott disagrees with the notion that there was only one assembly based on the tribes, which was the one of the plebeians. He notes that there are examples in which laws were proposed to the 1036:' account of how Telines, a ruler of Gela, a Greek town in Sicily, used the rites of Demeter and Persephone to bring back to Gela a group of political exiles. This story of civil discord, reconciliation and integration and the cult of Demeter was used to fabricate the tale of the first plebeian secession where the plebeians seceded from Rome but were then reconciled and returned to the city. The 1253:, a teller, an official who asked the people for their votes or collected votes) indicates that in later times, but before the introduction of the written ballot, the assembled men were asked to express their votes verbally, and that this was recorded with marks inscribed in tablets. However, there is no evidence for either of these. The written ballot was introduced by a series of laws, the 1028:
history were poorly documented. Based on T. P. Wiseman's view that many of Rome's early historical traditions 'were created, propagated, accepted and reshaped' from the middle of the fourth century BC onward, through dramas played on the stage at religious festivals, Forsythe argues that the story of the plebeian secession was invented to explain the origin of the temple of
1318:), in a counter-clockwise order: Romilia, Voltinia, Voturia, Aemilia, Horatia, Maecia, Scaptia, Pomptina, Falerina, Lemonia, Papiria, Ufentina, Terentina, Pupinia, Menenia, Publilia, Cornelia, Claudia, Camilia, Aniensis, Fabia, Pollia, Sergia, Clustumina, Quirina, Velina, Stellatina, Tromentina, Galeria, Sabatina, Arniensis. This list omits the 1158:) to be voted on, and after the prayer he laid his bill before the people. For electoral meetings, he announced the names of the candidates. If the meeting was for a trial, he acquainted the people with the nature of the offence on which the people had to pass a verdict. He concluded the announcement with the words 1234:. It was believed that the order of the lot was chosen by the gods, and thus, that the position held by the tribes which voted earlier was the position of the gods. If the voting process was not complete by nightfall, the electors were dismissed, and the voting had to begin again the next day. Laws passed by the 912:(plebeian council by the tribes) for assemblies based on the tribes which were exclusively for the plebeians. However, they are not found in the ancient Roman literature related to the Roman Republic. Therefore, they denote a distinction which can be disputed. It is based on the text by Gellius quoted above. 1421:
judicial functions, though these functions had fallen into disuse long before. This assembly's electoral functions also became nominal, with the assemblies being dominated by the emperor. Augustus filled half of the magistracies with his own candidates, though the magistracies as a whole had, by this
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In addition to the presiding magistrate of an assembly, several other magistrates acted as assistants, to help resolve procedural disputes, and to provide a mechanism for electors to appeal the decisions of the presiding magistrate. Since the Romans believed that the gods communicated their approval
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towns who were incorporated into the Roman state by being given Roman citizenship were also registered in tribes. Consequently, "the tribe might therefore, come to bear little relationship to the whereabouts of the citizen's domicile or property." With regard to the tribal assembly, the tribes were
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and the plebeians. During this first secession, the plebeians created their own institutions which were separate from those of the Roman state, which at that time was controlled by the patricians, and were intended to protect the interests of the plebeians. These included the plebeian tribunes, the
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distinction is a misplaced convention established by modern historians. He argues that it is found only in the quote by Gellius which comes from a text which was written in the imperial period; that is, after the fall of the Roman Republic and long after the assemblies of the Republic had ceased to
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distinction and the use of the quote by Gellius as its basis. They argue that this terminology is a convention established by modern historians which ancient writers did not make and that there was no assembly based on tribes other than the one where the plebeians met to vote and which was presided
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The thirty-five tribes were not ethnic or kinship groups, but geographic divisions into which Roman citizens were distributed. They were administrative districts which served for the purposes of taxation, the military levy, and for the registration of citizens. This registration occurred regularly
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There were several means by which an assembly could be adjourned. Besides unfavourable auspices, this could happen on religious grounds when the gods manifested their displeasure by rain, thunder, or lightning, or if the sun set before the proceedings were completed: the last because the auspices
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was an assembly of the whole of the Roman people, and opines that the plebeian secession was a myth created in later times. Roman historians emerged in the late third and early second century BC, some three hundred years after the date attributed to this secession and the events of Rome's early
1103:, call away) an assembly which had already been convened. Thus, "whoever of them first summons the people to an election has the law on his side, because it is unlawful to take the same action twice with the people nor can one minor magistrate call away an assembly from another." However, a 660:. The presiding magistrate made all decisions on matters of procedure and legality. His power over the assembly could be nearly absolute. One check on his power came in the form of vetoes by other magistrates. Also, any decision made by a presiding magistrate could be vetoed by the 1434:
continued to exist until the third century AD, but its remaining functions were only symbolic. It took auspices and gave prayer. It conferred the emperor's legislative powers and other authority only in a ceremonial manner. It proclaimed the laws presented to it for approval by
724:(coming together) referred to meetings where 'nothing was legally enacted'. They were convened to hear public announcements and pronouncements, speeches and debates, to witness the interrogation of someone accused of in a trial, and to watch executions. Opinions expressed in a 1286:. The first four tribes were the urban tribes, in the order: Suburana, Palatina, Esquilina, Collina. The rural tribes followed, concluding with Aniensis. Crawford postulates that the rustic tribes were enumerated along the major roads leading from Rome (the 976:, who must have been far more knowledgeable in these matters than Laelius Felix." Cicero lived during the late Republic. Livy was born during the late Republic and wrote a detailed history of the republican period. Forsythe also argues that the word 876:
with reference both of them. One was the assembly by the tribes which was used for plebeian meetings to which the patricians were excluded and which was convened by the plebeian tribunes. The other assembly based on the tribes was convened by the
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function. This implies that Laelius Felix was not sufficiently familiar with these republican institutions. Forsythe argues that the distinctions between two assemblies based on the tribes "has no support in the extensive writings of
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to appoint practically all offices without consulting the senate or the people. Some actions were still passed using the assemblies, with certain laws providing for the erection of temples, the remission of rents in 41 BC, and the
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In the politically volatile final years of the Roman Republic, the popular assemblies were susceptible to corruption, and vulnerable to politically-motivated violence by contending political factions. The establishment of the
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interval before the assembly voted the verdict. There are disagreements among scholars about how many days this interval lasted. Mommsen proposes 24 days, Michels 25 days. Lintott gives a flexible suggestion, 17 days or more.
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governing inheritance in 40 BC; similarly, various laws granting the triumvirs the right to wear the civic crown were passed by plebiscite, as it would have been unseemly for them to grant themselves those honours.
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in which private citizens had to ask the presiding magistrate for permission to speak. This debate took place before the bill was vetoed or put to the vote. If the vote was for an election, the candidates used the
1494:(tribunes of the public treasury) who had the tribal register, collected the property tax, and paid the soldiers registered in the tribe. Later this title became obsolete, and the heads of the tribes were called 1151:). In the politically volatile years of the late Republic, assemblies were sometimes broken up by riots. If an assembly convened as a court, its being broken up was equivalent to an acquittal of the accused. 782:. Moreover, the tribunes neither summon patricians nor have the power to propose anything to them. Thus, measures which were accepted on the proposal of the plebeian tribunes are not properly called laws ( 2173:
Taylor, L. R., Voting Districts of the Roman Republic: The Thirty-Five, Urban and Rural Tribes (Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome), University of Michigan Press, Revised edition, 2013;
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were involved in the census. By the late republic, their main task was to distribute bribes. Because tribal membership was re-registered once every five years in each census, it became possible to crudely
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had the power to allocate new lands to existing tribes as a part of the census. Thus, the censors had the power to apportion tribes in a manner that might be advantageous to them, or to their partisans.
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On the day of the vote, the tribes convened at dawn. The meeting started with a prayer, unaccompanied by sacrifice. For legislative meetings, the presiding magistrate was the one who proposed the bill (
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With the establishment of absolute rule by the emperors after the fall of the Republic, the Republican assemblies were emasculated. Augustus, the first emperor, became the real legislator and the
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The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Comprising his Treatise on the Commonwealth; and his Treatise on the Laws. Translated from the original, with Dissertations and Notes in Two Volumes
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were considered valid only for one day, from dawn to sunset. Other reasons were the veto of a plebeian tribune, or if one of the assembled citizens suffered an epileptic fit (
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in 287 BC, the patricians refused to accept the plebiscites as being binding on them on the ground that, because of their exclusion, did not apply to the whole of the people.
1245:(vote) indicates that in the early days the men in the assembly made a crash with their arms to signal approval, rather than vote. Another speculation is that the term 948:
of 9 BC. Moreover, the consuls conducted the elections of the curule aediles, who were not plebeian officials, before the tribes. Therefore, it is likely that the term
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was used both for the assemblies presided over by the consuls and the praetors and the assemblies presided over by the plebeian tribunes. Further, Livy mentions a
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interval between the announcement of a law and the vote. In the case of prosecutions before an assembly, the presiding magistrate was required to give notice (
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by the consuls, who did not preside over the assembly of the plebeians. For example, the law that increased the number of quaestors to twenty, attributed to
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did not have any legal validity. The Tribal Assembly was a comitia. Private citizens who did not hold political office could make speeches in a
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applied to assemblies which represented the whole of the Roman people. Measures passed by assemblies of the whole citizen body were called
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According to Roman tradition, in 494 BC, fifteen years after the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Roman Republic,
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transferred the comitia's remaining electoral authority to the senate. Although the emperors received many of their powers from the
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Orations and Letters of Cicero: With Historical Introduction, An Outline of the Roman Constitution, Notes, Vocabulary and Index
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Forsythe takes the revisionist view further. He rejects the idea there was a plebeian assembly and maintains that the
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of the people) to indicate meetings by the tribes which involved the whole of the Roman people (populus) and the term
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Although the order of voting was determined by lot, there was also an official order of the tribes, known as the
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to hear debates or to enable canvassing by electoral candidates before voting. The actual voting took place in a
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Gruen, Erich, "The Last Generation of the Roman Republic", University of California Press, new edition, 1995;
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Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)
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over by the plebeian tribunes, who submitted bills to its vote. References to laws which were submitted to the
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was used for formal assemblies convened 'to vote on legislative, electoral and judicial matters', and that
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Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Second Edition, Harry Thurston Peck, Editor (1897): Comitia
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Smith, W., Wayte, W., Marindin, G. E., (Eds), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890): Tribus
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Smith, W., Wayte, W., Marindin, G. E., (Eds), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890): Comitia
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Smith, W., Wayte, W., Marindin, G. E., (Eds), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890): Tribus
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could call off one summoned by magistrates other than a consul. If an assembly was called "to address a
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point, so little political importance that imperial control over elections was minimal. His successor,
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begun. The voters were not sorted into their tribes. For legislative matters there was a debate on the
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at the same time. Lintott suggests that this rule was intended to prevent rivalry among magistrates.
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The location of the meetings of the Tribal Assembly varied. Up to 145 BC, they were centred on the
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its voting districts. Each tribe had further subdivisions, which in the urban tribes were called
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and the result of its vote was announced immediately. The tribes which voted next were called
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without laying any measure before them, it was lawful for any number of magistrates to hold a
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by the consuls in the ancient literature must have pertained to bills they presented to the
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and that it is likely that in Republican times there was a single tribal assembly known as
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and voted by placing a pebble or written ballot into an appropriate jar. The baskets (
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was usually the most important tribe, because it often decided the matter through a
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there were two assemblies of the tribes and that the ancient sources used the term
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was a generic term 'for any kind of public meetings of citizens, including both
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at the forum's south-east end were used as the tribunal. Elevated gangways (
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This has been taken as referring to the assembly which was reserved for the
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In the Tribal Assembly, citizens were organized on the basis of thirty-five
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or disapproval with proposed actions, the presiding magistrate performed
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role in passing laws became only a ceremonial one. He also removed the
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that was convened by the consuls in 446 BC, during the early Republic.
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the tribes. While land could never be taken away from a tribe, the
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for canvassing, and there were no speeches by private citizens.
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Forsythe presents a more recent account of the argument that the
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The convening of the assembly was announced three market-days (
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The Romans distinguished between two types of assemblies, the
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Disagreements on the number and nature of tribal assemblies
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The Tribal Assembly was chaired by a magistrate, usually a
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and to arrange themselves by the tribes with the formula
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of the gods) the night before a meeting. There were also
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After the above, the voters were told to break up the
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and the citizens only exercised their right to vote.
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