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| | Roman Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Senate also bore the prerogative of authorizing the city's chief magistrates, the consuls, to nominate a dictator in a state of emergency, usually military. | | | There was no limit on debate, and the practice of what is now called the filibuster or talked out was a favoured trick (a practice which continues to be accepted in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States today). | | | Like the Comitia Centuriata and the Comitia Tributa, but unlike the Concilium Plebis, the Senate operated under certain religious restrictions. |
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| | Ancient Roman Law - Crystalinks |
| | The basis for Roman law was the idea that the exact form, not the intention, of words or of actions produced legal consequences. | | | Roman civil law allowed great flexibility in adopting new ideas or extending legal principles in the complex environment of the empire. | | | From the Law of the Twelve Tables, the first Roman code of law developed during the early republic, the Roman legal system was characterized by a formalism that lasted for more than 1,000 years. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/romelaw.html
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| | Lecture 11: Republican Rome, 509-31BC |
| | As such, their constitution was mixed as well: the executives serving as monarchical element, the Senate as the aristocratic and finally, the Assembly as the democratic element. | | | Instead, the Roman Republic was more like a confederation of states under the control of a representative, central authority. | | | In 367 B.C., the tribunes Gaius Licinius and Lucius Sextus passed the Licinian-Sextian laws which specified (1) that one consul every year must be a plebeian, (2) that the office of praetor should serve as assistant consul and (3) and that there should be a law restricting the amount of land held by any citizen. |
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| | Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The administrative divisions of the Roman Empire in 395, under Theodosius I. | | | An eventual rebellion was expected and would happen from time to time: a general or a governor would gain the loyalty of his officers through a mixture of personal charisma, promises and simple bribes. | | | His officers advised him to wait for the promised arrival of Gratian himself with further reinforcements. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
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| | Lecture 12: Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana |
| | Despite all the pomp and circumstance which accompanied this, the plain fact was that he was now left with total control of the armed forces of the Roman State. | | | He provided a cash payment to those soldiers who had served for more than twenty years, thus securing their loyalty to the Roman state and not to their generals. | | | Christianity could have been a state within a state but it did not aspire to political power. |
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| | Rome: The Roman Kingdom |
| | The Senate also judged the legislation and actions of the king to make sure that they accorded both with the constitution and with traditional custom; while the Senate seems to have ratified just about everything the king decided, they still exercised an important check on monarchical power. | | | While the rape of Lucretia and the overthrow of the Tarquins by Junius Brutus may be fictional (then again, it may not), the expulsion of the Etruscan monarchs began the decline in Etruscan power and civilization. | | | His authority, however, was limited and controlled by a constitution which he was powerless to change. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ROME/KINGDOM.HTM
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| | A Senate for the |
| | A praetor, typically, would have been elected earlier to the lowest elected rank of "quaestor." Quaestors (originally there were two of these) were in charge of making arrests and of the state's treasury. | | | The Romans used a system of strict term limits. | | | However, in most cases at least a strong minority of Senators would probably need to stand with the consuls before the consuls felt completely comfortable. |
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| | The Roman Senate |
| | A Senatorial Quorum shall be defined as such: one Consul, the Praetor, the Imperator, and two Senators (other than the Magistrates already listed) must be present. | | | At the discretion of the Consuls, there will be meetings where all Romans may attend. | | | All proposed legislation must be put in writing prior to a division. |
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| | Roman Government |
| | —elected every 5 years for terms of 1½ years; revised lists of senators and equestrians; conducted census of citizens and property assessments for tax purposes; granted state contracts. | | | Hence the primary power of tribunes was negative; they could veto the act of any magistrate and stop any official act of administration. | | | They were by law sacrosanct, meaning that anyone who attacked them physically could be immediately and summarily killed; they could convene the Senate and assemblies and initiate legislation. |
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| | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XII |
| | To appoint the proconsuls and presidents of the provinces, and to confer on all the magistrates their civil jurisdiction. | | | The variety of climates, and the hardships of a military life, would soon oppress a feeble constitution, which subsists only by the most tender management. | | | An army thus employed constituted perhaps the most useful as well as the bravest portion of Roman subjects. |
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| | A brief History of Rome |
| | The word 'Republic' itself comes from the Latin (the language of the Romans) words 'res publica' which mean 'public matters' or 'matters of state'. | | | The senate under the kings had only been there to advise the king. | | | He was a Roman politician and general who, without having any orders to do so, conquered the vast territory of the Gauls to the north of his province in France. |
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| | The Roman Senate |
| | The proud and aristocratic Senators, who had never been champions of the common Roman in any case, bristled under the murderous authority of the Emperor as subjects themselves. | | | The Roman Senate became a pathetic rubber-stamp body. | | | The Senate was one of the few remaining Republican political institutions that survived into the Empire. |
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| | senate, Roman on Encyclopedia.com |
| | SENATE, ROMAN [senate, Roman] governing council of the Roman republic. | | | After the proscription what was left of the senate was docile and ineffectual. | | | BC the senate was a group of 300 men with a high degree of political, legislative, and administrative power at Rome. |
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| | Roman Empire 1 - Crystalinks |
| | Three years later the Senate proclaimed him Augustus, the supreme ruler. | | | Caesar planned to transform the Roman state, but his few years in power were insufficient. | | | The Romans heaped other honors upon him, including the office of censor, which enabled him to control the membership of the Senate. |
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| | Roman Senate |
| | During the republic, the senate, although it could not make laws, was the dominant force in Roman politics; its decrees virtually had the force of law and strongly influenced legislation. | | | One became a senator simply by virtue of being elected to the quaestorship, the lowest office among the chief Roman magistracies (the others being the praetorship, consulship and censorship). | | | The Senate did not always meet in the Curia; it also convened in various temples and at other sites. |
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http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/romnlife/senate.htm
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| | Roman Senate House - History for Kids! |
| | The richest men in Rome were elected to serve in the Senate (These men prevented women from being in the Senate). | | | The first Senate house was, according to Roman historians, built before there even was a senate, by one of the kings of Rome, Tullius Hostilius. | | | Roman Senate House for Kids - where the Roman Senate held its meetings |
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| | Roman |
| | The keynote of Nerva's regime was a skillfully propagandized renunciation of the terrorist means by which Domitian had imposed his tyranny. | | | In 27 BC the Roman Senate gave Octavian the title Augustus and bestowed on him many other titles and powers that had been held by different officials in the Republic. | | | At the outbreak of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, Antony served as Caesar's commander in chief in Italy. |
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| | Mythography Ancient Roman Festivals |
| | No part of this website, including text and images, may be reproduced or copied in any form | | | this Roman festival was a type of All Souls Day when the departed were honored | | | Dionysiac festivals held in honor of the god Bacchus, Bacchanalia were so notorious in ancient Rome that the Roman Senate suppressed the celebration of these rites in 186 B.C. Feralia |
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