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The centuriate assembly (Latin: comitia centuriata) was a popular assembly of ancient Rome. In the Roman Republic , its main function was electing the consuls , praetors , and censors . It was made up of 193 centuries ( Latin : centuriae ) which were apportioned to Roman citizens by wealth and age, hugely overweighting the old and wealthy.
The legislative assemblies of the Roman Republic were political institutions in the ancient Roman Republic.According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people (and thus the assemblies) who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of Roman laws, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace, and the creation (or ...
Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented. [1] Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included are: constitutions (5), laws (5), and legislatures (7); state offices (28) and office holders (6 lists); political factions (2 + 1 conflict) and social ranks (8).
The main legislative assembly in the republic, it also elected the plebeian magistrates (tribunes and aediles) and heard some judicial matters. It is the modern convention to refer to an assembly of the people, organised by tribe and under the presidency of a plebeian tribune, as a concilium plebis. This was, however, not necessarily the case.
The contio (pl. "contiones"; from Latin "conventio" meaning "gathering") was an ad hoc public assembly in Ancient Rome, which existed during the monarchy as well as in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. [1] At the contio, magistrates informed the Roman citizens on various topics related
The Livian narrative indicates that the first assembly organised on a tribal basis was the plebeian concilium in 471 BC. [28] The tribal assembly – contra concilium plebis, see § Distinction from the plebeian council below, – came into existence some time before 447 BC, [2] when the assembly is first attested as electing quaestors.
Supreme People's Assembly, parliament of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) Assembly of the People (comitia populi tributa), a legislative assembly of the ancient Roman Republic; People's Assembly of Seychelles, the legislature of Seychelles between 1979 and 1993; People's Assembly of Syria, the legislative authority of Syria
Old St. Joseph's Church is a church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the first Roman Catholic church in the city. The church was founded in 1733; the current building was dedicated in 1839. The church was founded in 1733; the current building was dedicated in 1839.