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.
The Comitia Tributa were properly the council of the Roman people.
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.
The Comitia Tributa obtained its superior influence and power mainly through its Tribunes.
At a later time the tribes assembled in the forum for the transaction of business, and were hence called Comitia Tributa.
The Comitia Tributa, exclusively of Plebeians, and voting according to Tribes.
The comitia tributa, could be worked at times so as to vote right counter to the general feeling of the people.
The real method of popular expression in Italy in those days was not the comitia tributa, but the strike and insurrection, the righteous and necessary methods of all cheated or suppressed peoples.
Their power grew to such a height that they acquired the right of proposing to the Comitia tributa, or the Senate, measures on nearly all the important affairs of the state, and finally were elected from among the Senators themselves.
Soon after they had the right of summoning before their own Comitia tributa any one who violated their rights.
The Comitia Tributa represented the thirty Roman tribes according to the Servian constitution, to whom was originally given the right to elect inferior magistrates.
The inferior magistrates, whose office it was to superintend affairs of local interest, were elected by the Comitia Tributa.
Besides they retained, in the right to award fines without limitation and to submit this sentence to the -comitia tributa-, a sufficient means of putting an end to the civic existence of a patrician opponent.
Hence arise the comitia tributa; that is to say, either mere assemblies of the commons, or assemblies so organized that the commons had the preponderance.
Extension of the prerogatives of the comitia tributa, more especially in the election of the tribunes, brought about by Volero, 472.
Footnote 456: Milo impeached by Clodius before the comitia tributafor his employment of gladiators.
What Herennius proposed was that it should take place by a regular lex, passed by the comitia tributa.
In this assembly we have the origin of the comitia tributa or Assembly of the Tribes.
The more important of these powers were the right to sit in the Senate, to address, and even to convene that body, and the right to prosecute any magistrate before the comitia tributa.
From this time on, too, the comitia tributa, now embracing all the tribes, the rural as well as the urban, was a regular institution of the state.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comitia tributa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
