HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Twelve Tables, Arboriculture, Plebs
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Lecture 3: the struggle of the orders: the transition from monarchy to republic. These are perhaps a more reliable documentary" source than literary authors like livy: the new republican system. Put simply, the new republican political system had three main elements: the consuls. They were elected by an assembly of the people. They had both military and civilian powers: the senate. In later stages of republic, the senate was a permanent body of aristocratic men. The senate might have been a less permanent body at the very start of the republic: the assemblies of the people. There were several different popular assemblies in the. The main one in the early republic apparently was the comitia centuriata ( assembly of the centuries"). This assembly elected magistrates, passed laws, acted as a court, and had foreign relations functions (e. g. , ratifying treaties and declaring war): social divisions. The literary sources claim that earliest rome was a socially divided society from the earliest period.
