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 Encyclopedia topic: Roman citizen
The right to vote (in the Republic (A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch), women were citizens but couldn't vote)
The right to have a legal (additional info and facts about legal) marriage (The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
Citizens couldn't be sentenced to death (additional info and facts about sentenced to death) unless they were accused (A defendant in a criminal proceeding) of treason (Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior).
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/r/ro/roman_citizen.htm   (163 words)

  
 Archaeology and the New Testament
The scrolls also state it was a punishment reserved for slaves and any who challenged the ruling powers of Rome.
Roman historians have long taken it for granted."
In Acts 19:22 and Romans 16:23, Erastus, a coworker of Paul, is named the Corinthian city treasurer.
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arch-nt.html   (2505 words)

  
 Roman citizen - definition of Roman citizen in Encyclopedia
Citizens couldn't be punished by death unless they were accused of treason.
The right to vote (In the republic, women were citizens but couldn't vote)
In the Roman Empire, there were several factors to become a citizen.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Roman_citizen   (122 words)

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: 59
EventsPaul of Tarsus pleaded his case at Caesarea before Agrippa II, claiming his right as a Roman citizen to be tried under Roman, not Jewish, law.Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus retires from the Roman Senate.Births...
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/5/59   (52 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Citizen
Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
``Citizen Ruth,'' written and directed by Alexander Payne, is a satire with the reckless courage to take on both sides in the abortion debate.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Citizen   (294 words)

  
 definition of roman
A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
http://www.brainydictionary.com/words/ro/roman213971.html   (255 words)

  
 Alexander Polyhistor [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor was a Greek scholar, imprisoned by the Romans in the war of Sulla against Mithridates of Pontus and brought as a slave to Rome for employment as a tutor.
After Alexander's release he lived in Italy as a Roman citizen.
He had written so many books on philosophy, geography, and history, that he received the name Polyhistor.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/alexpoly.htm   (1657 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lystra
STERRET, The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor (Boston, 1888), 142, 219; LEAKE, Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor (London, 1824), 101, 103; RAMSAY, The Church in the Roman Empire (London, 1894), 47-54; IDEM, St. Paul the Traveller, and the Roman Citizen (London, 1895), 114-9; BLASS, Acta Apostolorum (Gottingen, 1895), 159-61; BEURLIER in VIG., Dict.
The exact site of the town has been discovered at Khatum Serai, twelve miles south of Iconium; it is marked by some ruins on a hill about one mile north of the modern village.
Some coins have been found there belong to a Roman colony founded by Augustus at Lystra "Colonia Julia Felix Germina Lystra".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09478c.htm   (339 words)

  
 Bible and Tradition Apologetics Index Page
Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen (W.M. Ramsay)
Reply to Jason Engwer's Catholic But Not Roman Catholic Series on the Church Fathers: Sola Scriptura (An In-Depth Analysis of Ten Church Fathers' Views Pertaining to the Rule of Faith) (Dave Armstrong vs. Jason Engwer)
The Allegorical Sense of Scripture (Mark P. Shea)
http://ic.net/~erasmus/ERASMUS3.HTM   (2062 words)

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