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- assembly of centuries
- voting population of senate, comprised of citizens over the age of 18
- tribunes
- Chosen representatives by patricians Assembly of tribes elected them., plebians own kind of goverment
- 12 tables
- who-plebians/government; when-450 b.c.; where-rome; why-made it possible for plebians to appeal judgement handed down by patrician judge, 12 laws; the earliest Roman code of laws
- praetor
- an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic
- legion
- a large military unit
- plebeian
- of the common people of ancient Rome
- SPQR
- Senatus Populusque Romanus, Senate and the roman people
- republic
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- assemblies
- approved legislation
- censors
- made up of senators, they assign the people classes
- veto
- the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
- dictator
- a person behaves in an tyrannical manner
- senate
- assembly possessing high legislative powers
- consul
- a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
- phalanx
- A massive formation of heavily armed foot soldiers.
- citizen
- a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
- Patrician
- a member of the aristocracy, of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient Rome or medieval Europe