Rome pt.2

"Power Couple"- The people shock at this horrible family and their terrible behavior made them never want to be subject to rule of kings--EVER again-- this was an attitude that lasted for centuries.

-3 government --> 1 government
-Rule of kinds is replaced by two CONSULS
-Term of office:one year
-Always aristocrats (patricians)
-Patricians traced decedents from famous ancestors
-Duties:dealing with justice, making laws, and commanding army's
-one council could veto the others

Fifth Century BCE-partrician dominance of the government was challenged by the plebeians.
-Plebeians were 98% of the population

How did the patricians dominate?
-Plebians had to serve in the army and couldn't hold office.
-threatened with the debt of slavery
-no legal rights

-"No Legal Rights"
-Plebeian victims of discriminatory decisions in judicial trials
-Rome had not actual laws, just unwritten customs
-interpret these to there own advantage

-Refused to Serve Until:
-Laws where written (law of 12 tables)
-laws where posted in public
-tribunes (tribal leaders) were elected

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