CLST 340 Lecture Notes - Centuriate Assembly, Aedile, Foedus Cassianum
14 Oct 2013
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To sit in the curule chair you needed imperium. 366: first year pleb elected consul, first year praetor and curule aedile positions were in effect. Concilium plebis tributum: council of the plebs divided by tribes, avoided word comitia initially, concilium plebis plus patricians were the comitia tributa. Comitia centuriata: voted for consuls and praetors, can be called together by consuls. Consuls can also call the senate together: also voted for censors since 444. After law that let intermarriage happen: passed laws, appeal court. In charge of contracts for public works: eventual pinnacle of political career, conducted the census. 509 right of appeal: lex canuleia. Concilium plebis: 10 tribunes every year, vote for tribunes, vote for pleb aediles. 2 of them: could pass laws. Law passed in concilium then goes to ratification at comitia centuriata. Comitia tributa: curule aediles and quaestors elected, court of appeal for less important cases.
