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.
Without going here into further details, we may gather from what has been said above that the Comitia Tributa were the most favourable to popular government, and the Comitia Centuriata to aristocracy.
New assemblies, the comitia centuriata, were formed, in which all members of the centuries shared, the old comitia curiata being thus virtually superseded.
The organization which gave rise to the comitia centuriata was the result of the earliest steps in the political emancipation of the plebs.
The comitia centuriata could be summoned and presided over only by the magistrates with imperium.
The internal structure of the comitia centuriata underwent a great change during the Republic--a change which has been conjecturally attributed to the censorship of Flaminius in 220 B.
The Comitia Centuriata acquired the right to elect the consuls, to hear appeals in capital cases from their verdicts, and to accept or reject bills laid before it.
The power granted to the Comitia Centuriata did not suffice to produce contentment.
The Comitia Centuriata, consisting of both Patricians and Plebeians, and voting according to Centuries; 2.
Each century agreed upon its vote separately when assembled in the comitia centuriata, precisely as each curia had been accustomed to do in the comitia curiata.
After the time of the Decemvirs the name of the office was changed to praefect of the city (praefectus urbi), its powers were enlarged, and it was made elective by the new comitia centuriata.
On his new division of the people according to property were raised the highly important institutions of the census and comitia centuriata.
Ten tables of laws were proposed by them, and ratified by the people at the comitia centuriata.
Comitia centuriata were the most important of all the assemblies of the people.
Comitia centuriata were assemblies of the various centuries into which the six classes of the people were divided.
None but the whole Roman people in the comitia centuriatacould pass sentence on the life of a Roman citizen.
This law gave to the decrees passed by the tribes the power of a real lex, binding upon the whole people, provided it had the sanction of the Senate and the populus in the Comitia Centuriata.
Their election took place in the Comitia Centuriata.
But Servius Tullius instituted the Comitia Centuriata, and hence divided the populus into six property classes, and one hundred and ninety-three centuriae.
The Comitia Centuriata elected the magistrates and made laws, and formed the highest court of appeal, but all its decisions had to be sanctioned by the curiae, although in course of time the curia was a formality.
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