In the early 5th century, the plebeians organized their own assembly, the concilium plebis, whose resolutions, called plebiscita, were binding only on plebeians. ❋ Unknown (2001)
They were convoked by the tribunes alone; at them the tribunes were elected and passed their plebiscita. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Indeed, even in the most stormy times, the plebiscita of the people, when the Senate did not interfere with them, always went through quietly and by large majorities. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It made plebiscita passed by the concilium plebis binding on all Romans. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Dictator, then those of Censor and of Praetor, and finally, in 286, by the law of HORTENSIUS, the plebiscita became binding upon all the people without the sanction of the Senate and Comitia Centuriáta. ❋ Robert Franklin Pennell (N/A)
All the decisions of the Comitia Tribúta (_plebiscita_), if sanctioned by the Senate and Comitia Centuriáta, were made binding upon patricians and plebeians alike. ❋ Robert Franklin Pennell (N/A)
And in fact, even in the most tumultuous times, the plebiscita of the people were always tranquil, and there was always a great majority of suffrages when the senate did not mix with them: the citizens having but one interest, the people had but one will. ❋ Jean Jacques Rousseau (1947)
It was in this assembly that the tribunes were elected, and there they passed their plebiscita. ❋ Jean Jacques Rousseau (1947)
They were the keepers of the decrees of the Senate, and of the plebiscita. ❋ John Lord (1852)
In 287 B.C. the Hortensian law made the plebiscita independent of the sanction of the Senate. ❋ John Lord (1852)
Republican senate and _plebiscita_ would not answer well in Cotton-Mills. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Wherefore the people, after the expulsion of the kings, growing impatient of this inequality, rested not till they had reduced the suffrage as it had been in the Comitia curiato to the whole people again; but in another way, that is to say, by the Comitia tributa, which thereupon were instituted, being a council where the people in exigencies made laws without the Senate, which laws were called plebiscita. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
_leges populi_ or laws proposed by the consul and passed by the centuries, the _plebiscita_ or laws proposed by the tribunes and passed by the tribes, and the _senatus consulta_, gradually swelled the laws to a great number. ❋ John Lord (1852)
_plebiscita_ would not answer well in Cotton-Mills. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
A Rogatio was a law submitted to the assembly of the people, and only became a Lex when enacted by them.] [Footnote 21: A _Jugerum_ was rather more than half an acre.] [Footnote 22: _Ut plebiscita omnes Quirites tenerent. ❋ William Smith (1853)
