GOVERNMENT OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

By Bryan Naval

R-jay Cabalar

Rica Gongora

REPUBLIC

Republic is a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

SENATE OF ROME Senate, Rome’s the most powerful political body of

patricians. It has have been previously elected as an executive officialas a tribune, questor, aedile, praetor, or consul. Rome's republican government allowed citizens to pursue offices in government, and wealthy, capable, glory, and honor through military and political service to Rome.

CONFLICT OF THE ORDERS Conflict of the order also referred to as the Struggle of the

Orders, was a political struggle between the Plebeians (commoners) and Patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 494 BC to 287 BC, in which the Plebeians sought political equality with the Patricians

Patricians originally referred to a group of ruling class families in

ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members.

Plebeians In ancient Rome, the plebs was the general body of free

Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census. Shopkeepers, crafts people, and skilled or unskilled workers might be plebeian

Consul A consul served in the highest elected political office of the

Roman Republic. Two consul were elected to served in one year term. consul was given veto power over his colleague and the officials would alternate each month.

Dictator Dictator is one who dictates, was an extraordinary magistrate

with absolute authority to perform tasks beyond the authority of the ordinary magistrate.

Tribunes A tribunes is an officer of ancient Rome elected by the

plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates.

They were well protected and held great power on behalf of plebeians

Veto Veto is strike by plebeians was followed by patricians

acknowledging that it was no longer as it had been in the days when aristocrats alone were the warriors.

Assembly of the Plebs elected officials, passed legislation that applied to all social

classes, and tried criminal cases involving commoners

Censor censor was created. There were to be two censors. The

census was needed for the collection of taxes and in organizing military duties. The censors learned of the extent of a man's property so that men who could afford it.

Twelve Table The Law of the Twelve Tables was the ancient legislation

that stood at the foundation of Roman law. They were laws that familiar to life, to develop through

priority and experience a culture for modern times. Aristocrats had taken the laws, believing that only they had

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