[CLAS 1140] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 15 pages long Study Guide!
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Founding of rome: 753 bc: myths: After the kings had been driven out, the consulship was established, and two consuls took office. A law was passed that the supreme authority in the state should rest with them. They were called consuls because they, above all else, consulted about, or looked after, the state. And thus dictators were appointed, from whom there was no right of appeal and to whom had been granted the power to inflict capital punishment. Since this magistrate had absolute power, it was unconstitutional for him to be kept in office for more than six months. The consuls, until they leave the city as commanders of the army, serve in rome as the chief administrators of all public affairs. All other magistrates serve under them and obey them. In addition, they present to it for discussion matters of urgency, and they carry out in entirety the execution of the senate"s decrees.
