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In the Roman republic, a rogatio (from Latin rogo, "ask, place a question before") is a proposed piece of legislation. All legislation during the republic was moved before an assembly of the people. The rogatio procedure underscores the fact that the Roman Senate could issue decrees, but was not a legislative. Only the people, organised in an assembly, could pass legislation.[1]
A magistrate with the jus contionandi could call a contio, an informal assembly of the people, before which he could announce new legislation.[2] A bill's proposer was its lator; a supporter was an auctor.[3] After a magistrate promulgated a bill, under the lex Caecilia Didia of 98 BC, a trinundium had to elapse. A trinundium meant three market days.[2] Immediately before an assembly was called to vote on a bill, a special contio was called so that a debate on the proposal could be held. Once that debate was over, the contio immediately became the assembly that could vote on the matter.[4]
With only a few exceptions, the main legislative assembly was the
In the early
All copies of statutes, proposed laws, and other public documents were recorded in the aerarium under the stewardship of the urban quaestors.[13]
See also
References
- ^ Millar 1998, pp. 157–58.
- ^ a b Mouritsen 2001, p. 38.
- ^ Millar 1998, p. 26.
- ^ Mouritsen 2001, pp. 38–39.
- ^ Lintott 1999, p. 55, noting that "almost all legislation" took place before the tribes.
- ^ a b Lintott 1999, p. 46.
- ^ a b de Libero 2006.
- ^ Mouritsen 2001, p. 19.
- ^ Lintott 1999, p. 48.
- ^ Lintott 1999, pp. 60–61.
- ISBN 978-0-521-40373-3. Lintott believes Ciceroexaggerates the extent to which the plebs could influence withdrawal.
- ^ Millar, Fergus (2002). Rome, the Greek world, and the East. University of North Carolina Press. p. 116.
- ^ Lintott 1999, p. 137.
Bibliography
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- de Libero, Loretana (2006). "rogatio". Brill's New Pauly. Brill. .
- Gruen, Erich (1995). The last generation of the Roman republic (Paperback ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02238-6.
- Lintott, Andrew (1999). Constitution of the Roman republic. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-926108-6. Reprinted 2009.
- Millar, Fergus (1998). The crowd in Rome in the late republic. Jerome Lectures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-10892-3.
- Mouritsen, Henrik (2001). Plebs and politics in the late Roman republic. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79100-7.
- Mouritsen, Henrik (2017). Politics in the Roman republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 961266598.
- Mousourakis, George (2003). The historical and institutional context of Roman law. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-2108-9.