HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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The Twelve Tables
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Plebeians earn the right to pass laws
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Rome grows into the largest city
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One consul must be a Plebeian
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Detailed explanation-1: -Second plebeian secession – 449 BCE. In 451 BCE it was decided to establish a decemvir office (decemviri) – “council of ten” 2 – which was to codify Roman law. The special college had full power, and all its decisions were not subject to appeal.
Detailed explanation-2: -until 494 B.C.E., when a strike orchestrated by the plebeians resulted in the establishment of the Concilium Plebis, or the Councilof the Plebs. This gave the plebeians a voice in the government. As a result, new legislative, or law-making, bodies of the Roman Republic were formed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Secessio plebis (withdrawal of the commoners, or secession of the plebs) was an informal exercise of power by Rome’s plebeian citizens, similar in concept to the general strike. During the secessio plebis, the plebs would abandon the city en masse in a protest emigration and leave the patrician order to themselves.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the plebeians revolts, the patricians agreed to let the plebeians elect officials called tribunes of the Plebs. The tribunes spoke for the plebeians in the senate and with the consuls. Later, tribunes gained the power to veto, or overrule, actions by the Senate and other government officials.