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	Comitia - LoveToKnow 1911
		But popular phraseology did not conform to this canon, and comitia, which gained in current Latin the sense of "elections" was sometimes used of the assemblies of the Halley concluded that all the three orbits belonged to the same comet, of which the periodic time was about 76 years.
		This comitia must originally have been composed exclusively of patricians; but there is reason to believe that, at an early period of the Republic, it had, in imitation of the centuriate organization, come to include plebeians (see Curia).
		The comitia curiata and the two assemblies of the tribes met within the walls, the former usually in the Comitium, the latter in the Forum or on the Area Capitolii; but the elections at these assemblies were in the later Republic held in the Campus Martius outside the walls.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Comitia (2544 words)

	Comitia Centuriata. Who is Comitia Centuriata? What is Comitia Centuriata? Where is Comitia Centuriata? Definition of ...
		The Comitia Centuriata (Centuriate Committee) included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries.
		The Comitia Populi Tributa (Committee of the Tribal Peoples) included both patricians and plebeians distributed among the thirty-five tribes whereinto all Roman citizens were placed for administrative and electoral purposes.
		The voting was therefore heavily slanted in favor of the thirty-one rural tribes.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Comitia_Centuriata (699 words)

	comitia centuriata
		A motion accepted by the comitia centuriata is called a lex.
		comitia tributa (The Assemblies of the Tribes)
		comitia curiata (The Assemblies of the Curiae)
	www.yorku.ca /pswarney/3130/home/COMITIA (92 words)

	Roman Assemblies
		The comitia centuriata elected the higher magistrates (consuls, praetors, censors-although it was the senate which nominated the candidates), officially declared war and peace (although the actual decisions for this lay with the consuls).
		When considering the comitia centuriata one needs to keep in mind that its great influence was reflecting the fact that it was made up of the soldiery, which in republican times was almost entirely made up of the landowning classes.
		Its influence decreased in the later republic, being eclipsed by the comitia tributa and the concilium plebis.
	www.roman-empire.net /republic/rep-assembly.html (826 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 334 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		magistrate to the decision of the comitia centuriata as a court of appeal.
		Whether the comitia centuriata or comitia tributa were to take cognisance of an offence depended on the light in which the magistrates regarded it.
		In the comitia centuriata this would be a consul or prsetor, in the comitia tributa a tribune, sedile, or quaestor.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0337.html (684 words)

	Roman assemblies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Comitia Curiata were the oldest Roman assembly after the "Comitia Calata", represented the original three Roman tribes, organized in 30 "curiae", voting units that each casted one collective vote.
		The Comitia Centuriata included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries.
		The Comitia Tributa included both patricians and plebeians distributed among the thirty-five tribes into which all Roman citizens were placed for administrative and electoral purposes.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Roman_assemblies (1158 words)

	Servius Tullius - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		After establishing their assembly, the comitia centuriata, he took the power of the legislative vote away from the comitia curiata and gave it instead to the comitia centuriata.
		The classis was a calling of a different sort of assembly, the comitia centuriata, which took over most of the functions of the subsequently supernumerary comitia curiata.
		The comitia centuriata met when summoned by the senate and later the consuls to vote on legislation, one vote per century.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/e/r/Servius_Tullius_b375.html (2621 words)

	Roman Assemblies - ScenarioWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Patrician and Equite members of the Comitia Centuriata were divided into groups of only 100 (which is small for a Century in the Comitia Centuriata) which gave the individual votes of upper class citizens more clout.
		The Comitia Centuriata was originally a military assembly of knights, hence the origin of the subdivisions of people being centuries.
		Additionally, the Comitia Centuriata would preside of cases of high treason; however, this function of the Comitia Centuriata was dissolved when the Quaestio Perpetua de Majestatis was formed to preside over high treason crimes.
	www.schliffer.com /scenariowiki/index.php?title=Roman_Assemblies (1160 words)

	Roman Government: The Republic
		When the Comitia Centuriata voted, all the citizens allocated to each century voted in order to see how their century would cast its one vote.
		The Comitia Centuriata also deliberated on policy matters, such as deciding on peace and war, though the voters technically could only respond by a 'yes' or 'no' decision to questions or measures put to them by the consuls who were the presiding officers of the assembly.
		The Tribunes of the Plebs were held to be inviolate and sacrosanct, a status made effective by virtue of the sacred oath sworn by all the plebs to kill anyone, including magistrates, who opposed or harmed one of their tribunes.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~ekondrat/Rome_Govt.html (1027 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 154 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But the Comitia Curiata retained the powers affecting the reception of a non-patrician into the patrician order, and the powers affecting the proceeding of arrSgatto, especially in cases where the transition of a patrician into a plebeian family was concerned.
		The original founder of the comitia centuriata transferred to them certain political rights which had previously been exercised by the comitia curiata.
		The duties of the comitia centuriata during the republican period were as follows: (a) To elect the higher magistrates, consuls, censors, and praetors, (b) To give judgment in all the capital trials in which appeal to the people was permitted from the sentence of the magistrate sitting in judgment.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0157.html (619 words)

	Comitia (Nova Roma) - NovaRoma
		The Comitia Curiata is the oldest recorded Comitia in Rome.
		The duties of the Comitia Curiata are to invest elected and appointed magistrates with Imperium, witness the appointment of the official priests and priestess of the Sacra Publica Romana, and ratify some adoptions, wills, and changes of status.
		The Comitia Centuriata (Assembly of Centuries) is made up of all of the citizens.
	www.novaroma.org /vici/index.php?title=Comitia_(Nova_Roma)&redirect=no (1410 words)

	Lex Julia de fabricatio reipublicae - Respublica Septimontiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Voting procedures for legislation brought before the Comitia Centuriata are only to be initiated by a Consul or Praetor, who first must put the bill before the Senate, where he may, but is not required to, receive a Senatus Consultum.
		Legislation brought before the Comitia Centuriata can either be voted upon right away as presented by the magistrate, or the presiding magistrate can institute a lex rogata, whereupon a period of nine days can be dedicated to popular discussion and alteration of the law.
		The Comitia Curiata is only convened at the instigation of a Consul on the 15th of March to bestow imperium on new magistrates.
	www.roman-republic.com /wiki/index.php?title=Lex_Julia_de_fabricatio_reipublicae (3576 words)

	Roman Government
		The first assembly, the comitia curiata was derived from the 30 curiae that rose from the 3 early Romalan Tribes.
		However, the comitia curiata of the democratic branch, consisted of elected citizens over the age of 50 that were elected for life.
		The second assembly, the comitia centuriata, was the most important assembly and was based on wealth and age.
	www.personal.psu.edu /students/d/e/deo114/art002/Final_Project/Government.htm (848 words)

	LEX FABIA DE RATIONE COMITIORUM CENTURIATORUM
		All previous laws relating to the Comitia Centuriata are hereby rescinded as they apply to the election of magistrates and the voting of leges by the Comitia Centuriata.
		In the case of a vote on the guilt or innocence of a citizen tried before the Comitia Centuriata, each century shall vote for conviction if a majority of the votes received from members of that century are marked condemno.
		In the case of a trial before the Comitia Centuriata, a majority of the centuries most vote in favor of conviction in order for the accused to be convicted.
	village.flashnet.it /~ua01823/Codex/Comitia/Centuriata/2003-10-08-i-derationecomcentl.htm (2041 words)

	The Social Contract or Principals of Political Right - Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		When lawfully summoned, these were called comitia: they were usually held in the public square at Rome or in the Campus Martius, and were distinguished as comitia curiata, comitia centuriata, and comitia tributa, according to the form under which they were convoked.
		Had all the patricians attended the comitia by virtue of the right they had as citizens, they would not, as mere private individuals, have had any considerable influence on a vote reckoned by counting heads, where the meanest proletarian was as good as the princeps senatus.
		It is indisputable that the whole majesty of the Roman people lay solely in the comitia centuriata, which alone included all; for the comitia curiata excluded the rural tribes, and the comitia tributa the senate and the patricians.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/socl/politicalscience/TheSocialContract/chap10.html (3557 words)

	Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part II, Essay X, OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS: Library of Economics and ...
		In the former, it is well known, the people voted according to their census; so that when the first class was unanimous, though it contained not, perhaps, the hundredth part of the commonwealth, it determined the whole; and, with the authority of the senate, established a law.
		The centuriata found it convenient always to submit; and though equal in authority, yet being inferior in power, durst never directly give any shock to the other legislature, either by repealing its laws, or establishing laws, which, it foresaw, would soon be repealed by it.
		CICERO was recalled by the comitia centuriata, though banished by the tributa, that is, by a plebiscitum.
	www.econlib.org /library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL33.html (2101 words)

	Roman assemblies at AllExperts
		The Roman assemblies were the Comitia Calata, the Comitia Curiata, the Comitia Centuriata, and the Comitia Tributa.
		In the later Republic, a subset of the Comitia Tributa, the Concilium Plebis, gained the legislative powers of the assemblies and became the favored legislative mechanism.
		The Comitia Calata was held under the presidency of the pontifex maximus.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/roman_assemblies.htm (1292 words)

	Political Theory: Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Since the comitia centuriata elected the consuls, and, initially, passed all major legislation, Rousseau is instructing his “judicious reader” how to arrange for the appointment of the “best” magistrates and the passage of laws reflecting the general will: allow the wealthiest citizens to do so themselves by less than transparent means.
		But the comitia tributa was a formal, legitimate assembly, and thus it is unlikely that the tribunes, who began as unofficial, informal magistrates, would have had the authority to establish it.
		The comitia tributa, on the other hand, may have included patricians, but since it was subdivided by tribes rather than centuries, plebeians and poorer citizens would have had the numerical superiority to outvote their social betters (see Millar 2002, 28, 20-21).
	www.politicaltheory.info /essays/mccormick.htm (11239 words)

	comitia -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Voting in the Comitia Centuriata proceeded by centuries according to precedence, starting with the equites, followed by the first and wealthiest class; these groups constituted a clear majority over the combined votes of the other four classes if they voted as a block.
		This comitia elected the minor magistrates (curule aediles, quaestors, and military tribunes), held minor trials, and eventually became a regular organ for laws passed by the whole people.
		There were also comitia in municipia and coloniae for the election of magistrates and the passage of local legislation, but these comitia also decayed under the empire.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9024942 (1110 words)

	Roman assemblies - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Roman Republic (Res Publica Romana) vested formal governmental powers in four separate assemblies — the 'Comitia Curiata", the Comitia Centuriata, the Comitia Tributa, and the Concilium Plebis.
		The Curiate Assembly, probably the oldest Roman assembly apart from the barely-remembered "Comitia Calata", represented the original three Roman tribes, organised in 30 "curiae".
		They represent one of the most wide-ranging and direct shifts in the constitutions of the Roman state during both the Republic and the Empire.
	www.iridis.com /Roman_assemblies (763 words)

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		The comitia centuriata was organized along the same lines as the army and it continued long after the legion had rendered the century obsolete for military purposes.
		This aristocratic comitia centuriata elected the consuls and other high magistrates, declared war and ratified treaties, passed laws (leges) concurrently with the senate, and served as a court of appeal for citizens condemned to death.
		The comitia tributa elected the "tribunes of the people" (tribuni plebis), and passed resolutions (scita or plebiscita, whence our word "plebiscite")which after 287 B.C. had the same force as the laws (leges) passed by the senate and the comitia centuriata.
	hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca /mcallip/Hist10/Rome/political_institutions.htm (647 words)

	e. The Early Republic. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The consuls were elected by the comitia centuriata, a plutocratically organized assembly of the male citizens, but their imperium continued to be conferred by the comitia curiata (lex curiata).
		All magistrates with imperium, and also the censors, were elected by the military assembly, comitia centuriata.
		Other officials were elected by the comitia tributa, which passed the great majority of laws (leges).
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	The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right by Jean Jacques Rousseau: 4. The Roman Comitia
		When lawfully summoned, these were called comitia: they were usually held in the public square at Rome or in the Campus Martius, and were distinguished as comitia curiata, comitia centuriata, and comitia tributa, according to the form under which they were convoked.
		Had all the patricians attended the comitia by virtue of the right they had as citizens, they would not, as mere private individuals, have had any considerable influence on a vote reckoned by counting heads, where the meanest proletarian was as good as the princeps senatus.
		It is indisputable that the whole majesty of the Roman people lay solely in the comitia centuriata, which alone included all; for the comitia curiata excluded the rural tribes, and the comitia tributa the senate and the patricians.
	www.online-literature.com /rousseau/social-contract-or-principles-/47 (2861 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Roman assemblies
		The Roman Republic (Latin: Res Publica Romanorum) vested formal governmental powers in four separate assemblies andmdash; the Comitia Curiata, the Comitia Centuriata, the Comitia Tributa, and the Concilium Plebis.
		The Curiate Assembly, probably the oldest Roman assembly apart from the barely-remembered "Comitia Calata", represented the original three Roman tribes, organised in 30 "curiae".
		The Comitia Centuriata included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries.
	upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=roman_assemblies (959 words)

	How Democratic Was the Roman Republic?
		Millar admits that the popular assembly called the comitia centuriata (the Centuriate Assembly), which elected the highest magistrates (censors, consuls, praetors, and curule aediles) and occasionally passed legislation, was biased toward the upper census classes of property owners by its complex unit-voting system.
		The crucial thing for him, however, is that legislation was usually introduced by tribunes of the plebs, supposedly the defenders of the common citizens, in the assembly known as the comitia tributa, the Tribal Assembly, in which the voters were organized in territorially based units called tribes (205 and 209).
		If the comitia tributa had embodied the principle of "one man, one vote," as in the Athenian Ecclesia or had been based on the proportional representation of the citizens, as in the U. House of Representatives, we could agree that it would have been a democratic institution.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/showcase/warddemocracy2.html (537 words)

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