CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Potestas, Pomerium, Secret Ballot
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Carried out the supervision of laws and morals. Held the tribunicia potestas (power of a tribune: power without imperium. He was against couples that were children, and for the first time under his rule adultery became a public offence. He was a patrician, as he was adopted by caesar. He was not allowed to have any kind of magistracy that was meant for plebeians. Only after julius caesar imperium romanum began to mean roman empire. Rome was based on the ideas of many men, not just one, and it was set up across many centuries and generations, not in the life-time of one man. Roman citizens assembled and voted both for elections and for passing laws. Only magistrates with imperium had the right to deal with people. In rome there were 3 assembles (in charge of elections of different magistrates): comitia centuriata, comitia tribute, concilium plebis.