CLST 2102 Chapter : Struggle Of The Orders Roman Republican Gov
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Origin of class unknown: romans commonly believed the romulus created the patrician families, class probably developed during the course of the monarchy, possibly the heads of certain powerful families, descendent of the ancient aristocracy with accompanying prestige. After the fall of the monarchy the patrician families tried to monopolize political and sacred power. Plebeians: not patricians, distinction social [family], not economic or racial, term does not denote an inferior caste or cultural/racially inferiority, term includes non-patricians of all economic classes. Elite plebeians economically and culturally like the: plebeians the majority of the population patricians. Sacred duty to kill without penalty ot blood-gult. Mod law: veto power (veto= i forbid, at first exercised on individual basis, later extended to legislation and other government acts, tribune could summon the concilium peblis, later the comitia tribulta and eventually even the senate. Plebeians created their own state within a state.
