1. Government of the Roman
Republic
By: Hunter, Nick, Garrett, Christian
2. Rome Republic
• The power was passed to an aristocratic
council of elders.
• Senate: Rome's most powerful political body
of Patricians. To be in senate you had to have
previously been in the executive official.
• Conflict of the the Orders: Citizens Struggled
against each other for civil rights and
representation in the government. Patricians
vs. Patricians.
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4. “Conflict of Orders”
• Patricians like warring. They were horsemen,
and Calvary was their basic fighting unit.
• They were larger majority of the population
and were commoners.
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6. Consuls
• Consuls served as a commander-in-chief in the
military. The consuls also decided who would
be promoted to positions of authority within
the Senate.
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8. Tribunes
• Although the senate did not give the
plebeians exactly what they wanted, it did
create a military tribunes. The tribunes were
to be elected by small farmers and by
aristocrats, and the tribunes could be either
commoners or aristocrats. Tribunes were well
protected and held great power on behalf of
plebeians.
• The senate gave tribunes the power to veto
any laws passed by the senate.
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10. Assembly of the Plebs
• Assembly of the Plebs presided over by
tribunes, this assembly allowed expanded
democracy by allowing plebeians to elect
certain officials, try criminal cases involving
plebeians, and pass legislation.
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12. Censor
• To relieve the consuls of the duty of taking the
census, the office of censor was created.
There were to be two censors. The census was
needed for the collection.
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14. Government Branches
• To add to the executive branch of government
and the legislative branch a third branch of
government was created: the judiciary, or the
courts. This had been urged by the plebeians,
who wanted laws to apply to them and patricians
equally. An officer of the law, called the Praetor
was put in charge of the judiciary and led armies
as needed, too. He was to be elected annually by
the military assembly, and it was hoped that he
would exercise judgments independent from
politics.
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16. Twelve Tables
• To avoid arbitrary decisions concerning the
law, plebeians demanded that laws be put into
writing, and by 449 BC this resulted in the
creation of what became known as the Twelve
Tables, laws written on twelve bronze tablets.
Punishments for breaking the laws expressed
in the Twelve Tables were harsh, conforming
to strong commitments to virtue.
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18. The Cursus Hunorum
• The Cursus Honorum was the ladder of executive
offices, positions of power in government.
Rome's "greatest" men vied to attain each office
in the first year of age-eligibility. At 42, a man
could be elected Consul, the highest executive
office in the Roman government. Consuls shared
power over the prosecution of wars and
administration of government. In times of
emergency, the Senate could declare one Consul
a dictator for a period of six months.
