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    The Concilium Plebis (English: Plebeian Council, Plebeian Assembly, People's Assembly or Council of the Plebs) was the principal assembly of the common...
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  • theology Concilium Germanicum (c. 742), the first major Church synod to be held in the eastern parts of the Frankish kingdoms Concilium Plebis, the principal...
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  • magistrates. These tribunes had the power to convene and preside over the Concilium Plebis (people's assembly); to summon the senate; to propose legislation;...
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    was the council (Latin: concilium), which was a gathering of a specific group of citizens. For example, the concilium plebis, or plebeian council, was...
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    exceptions. The tribunes of the plebs had the power to convene the concilium plebis, or plebeian assembly, and propose legislation before it. Only one...
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    involved the whole of the Roman people (populus) and the term Concilium Plebis or Concilium Plebis Tributum (plebeian council by the tribes) for assemblies...
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  • controlled the vast majority of the votes in the Plebeian Council (Latin: concilium plebis), as they controlled 29 of the voting blocs that never numbered more...
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    passage of the lex Hortensia, plebiscites – or laws passed by the concilium plebis – were made binding on the whole Roman people. Moreover, it banned...
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  • 137 BC. As a tribune of the plebs, he successfully proposed in the concilium plebis a law to introduce secret ballot for all trials before the Assemblies...
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    Depiction of Gaius addressing the concilium plebis....
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    though the motion was passed, nobody volunteered. A meeting of the concilium plebis also was called; although Caesar promised every citizen a gift of 300...
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  • (the plebeian aediles) and its own assembly, the Plebeian Council (Concilium Plebis). These plebeian institutions were extra-legal in that they were not...
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    inducing an ally of his, then-tribune Titus Manlius Mancinus, to have the concilium plebis override the Senate's decision and give him the command. Metellus refused...
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    Plebeian Council (Concilium Plebis), and to elect their own officials to protect their rights, the plebeian tribune (tribunus plebis). During the 5th century...
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  • naming years. A new law, Lex Hortensia, gives much greater power to the Concilium Plebis (Plebeian Council) compared to the Senate. This law is passed following...
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    differ considerably. At a broad level, the bill was proposed before the concilium plebis; Tiberius forwent the approval of the senate before a bill was to be...
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    Gaius Gracchus before the Concilium Plebis....
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    successful struggle are the establishment of a plebeian assembly (the concilium plebis) with some legislative power and to elect officers called tribunes...
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    Voltinia was preferred. Together, the Servian tribes constituted the concilium plebis, or plebeian council; as time passed and the council's authority to...
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    from the Latin plebiscita, which originally meant a decree of the Concilium Plebis (Plebeian Council), the popular assembly of the Roman Republic. Today...
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    Tribes had voted the same way, voting ended. The Plebeian Council (concilium plebis) was the principal popular gathering of the Roman Republic. As the...
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    Centuriata trying cases where the penalty was death or exile, and the Concilium Plebis trying all other cases. A magistrate (Praetor or even Consul) would...
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    assemblies Roman Curia Comitia curiata Comitia centuriata Comitia tributa Concilium plebis aedile – Office of the Roman Republic censor – Roman magistrate and...
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    Gaius Gracchus addressing the Concilium Plebis (Rome)...
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  • of Song. A new law, Lex Hortensia, gives much greater power to the Concilium Plebis (Plebeian Council) compared to the Senate. This law is passed following...
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  • who proposed that the assignment of the provinces be put before the concilium Plebis. The people then voted to assign the war against Carthage to Scipio...
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    Publilia of 471 BC would be merely an anticipation of the later law. Concilium Plebis Tribune of the Plebs Conflict of the Orders Such is the account given...
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  • Roman armies by the Cimbri at the Battle of Arausio in 105 BC. At the concilium plebis where Servilius Caepio was tried, two tribunes attempted to veto proceedings...
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    by the Roman Republic. The Lex Clodia de Cyprus was passed by the Concilium Plebis in 58 BC and Cato was sent to conquer Cyprus and serve as its new proconsul...
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    Aediles of the plebs, as well as the creation of its own assembly, the concilium plebis, which elected the Tribunes and the Aediles. To commemorate the event...
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