POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tiberius Gracchus, Roman Citizenship, Plebs

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Rodney Leoppky

Document Summary

Ancient rome i: the centrality of rome a) the roman republic. Bring politics far away from the bloodline. Institutions put into place by the leadership. Each tribe was supposed to have one vote in the assembly. Another institutions that gets developed along the way, its a position in the senate. This instituion is called the tribune of the plebs. Plebeian =to not be of the origin of the founding families. Tribunes were to represent the plebeian masses. Wider assembly on one hand where all the legislation goes, and then you have tribunes inside the senates, tribunes could vito all proposals in the senate. As testimony to that violent undertone of most political systems, their bodies are supposed to be sacrosanct. Athenian model citizens could represent themselves but in the roman is not. Athenian direct democracy, citizens can be herd, but it is always via representation.