| Description |
xi, 297 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
I. Introduction. Sources of Legal Authority -- II. A Roman Political Year -- III. Polybius and the Constitution -- IV. The Story of the Origin of the Constitution -- V. The Assemblies. Comitia, Contio, and Concilium. Assembly Procedure. The Organization of the Different Assemblies. Obstruction, Abrogation, Annulment. The Nature of Roman Legislation -- VI. The Senate. Membership of the Senate. The Place and Time of Meetings. Procedure. The Authority of the Senate -- Appendix. The So-Called Last Decree -- VII. The Higher Magistrates and the Pro-Magistrates. The Nature of the Magistrate's Power. The Functions of Magistrates -- VIII. Tribunes, Aediles, and Minor Magistrates. Tribunis Plebis. Aedilis. Quaestor. Minor Magistrates. The Cursus Honorum -- IX. Criminal Justice. The Early Republican Background. The Development of the Law in the Later Republic -- X. The Influence of Society and Religion. Aristocratic Families and their Values. Plebeian Connections and Dependence. Religion |
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XI. The Balance of the Constitution. The Magistrates. The Senate and the Aristocracy. The Power of the People. Changes in the Balance -- XII. The Mixed Constitution and Republican Ideology. The Mixed Constitution in Classical Greece and in Polybius. Cicero's De Re Publica. Cicero's De Legibus -- XIII. The Republic Remembered. The Middle Ages. Machiavelli. The Antiquarians. The Roman Republic and the English Revolution. Montesquieu and the Founding Fathers |
| Summary |
Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment. This book represents the first major work in English to study the constitution of the Roman Republic in all its complexity |
| Notes |
Published in paperback in 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- Rome.
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Constitutional law -- Rome.
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Political science -- Early works to 1800.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115114
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115179
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| LC no. |
98030456 |
| ISBN |
0198150687 |
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