The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
A multiple of things were discussed in the Roman senate. Resolutions, honors to be given to an individual, proposals for laws, consultation as to what to do about a troublesome province, were all things talked over. The senate also tried high profile criminal cases and treason cases. They were also responsible for allotting funds for public games, repair of certain buildings and of paying the army.
The senate discussed everything pertaining to government. Some of the things brought up to the senate were the appointing of governors, generals, and dictators, a vote either for or against a war, the proposal of new laws and the verdict of any trial that they may have juried. Since the senate could not legally pass/impose a law, they would discuss "resolutions" which had the same effect as a law. In imperial times the senate also ratified any new emperor.
The senate in ancient Rome was a debating and consulting body. They could not actually pass a law (laws had to be voted on by the assemblies) but they could propose laws. They could also pass resolutions that for all practical purposes functioned as laws. In addition, treason or high profile criminal trials were tried by the senate.
the senate made policy decisions
the role of the senate in the ancient Roman Republic was to make sure the consuls follower the laws accounted to them and that they didn't take to much of rule over the empire.
The role was the same it always has been and still is.
The exact date of the end of the Roman Republic is debated, one commonly accepted date is 44BC - when Julius Caesar was assassinated (after being proclaimed perpetual dictator). Another is 27BC, when the Senate granted extraordinary powers to Octavian (Augustus) - the beginnings of the Roman Empire.The role of perpetual dictator had never existed in the Republic before this time, and it sparked the beginning of an autocratic system.
The consuls were the the two annually elected heads of the Republic and the army. The unelected senate was the advisory body of the consuls At the beginning of the Roman Republic the patricians (the aristocracy) controlled the Roman state by monopolising the consulship the seats of the senate and the priesthoods, which in those days had an important political role. With the 200-year long Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians (the commoners, both rich and poor), the rich plebeians managed to obtain power-sharing with the patricians. They gained access to the consulship and the new offices of state which were created as the Republic developed, the seats of the senate and some of the priesthoods. They were co-opted into a patrician-(rich) plebeian oligarchy.
The Roman consuls served in the highest elected political office in the Roman Republic. Hope that helps! :) ;D
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the role of the senate in the ancient Roman Republic was to make sure the consuls follower the laws accounted to them and that they didn't take to much of rule over the empire.
made policy decisions
The role of the assemblies in the Roman republic were to create laws and elect the officials of the republic.
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the role of the senate in the ancient Roman Republic was to make sure the consuls follower the laws accounted to them and that they didn't take to much of rule over the empire.
The Roman Senate was a council that advised Rome's leaders, including the consuls and later the emperors. Comprised of men from the Roman elite, the Senate played a significant role in the governance and decision-making of the Roman Republic and Empire.
the senate i think
Yes, progressively.
The role was the same it always has been and still is.
The difference is really between the Roman republic and the absolute rule by emperors which followed the republic. Rome already had an empire under the republic. Much of her imperial expansion occurred during the period of of the Republic. The republic had five types of elected officers of state. Augustus (the first Roman emperor) turned them into his appointees. The powers of the popular assemblies which elected the officers was transferred to the senate and their role became merely ceremonial. The senate was emasculated and turned into an instrument for the emperor's power. The plebeian institutions, the plebeian tribunes and the Plebeian Council were done away with. Augustus created a bureaucracy under the control of the emperor. The army was also bought under the control of the emperor who was an absolute ruler.
The exact date of the end of the Roman Republic is debated, one commonly accepted date is 44BC - when Julius Caesar was assassinated (after being proclaimed perpetual dictator). Another is 27BC, when the Senate granted extraordinary powers to Octavian (Augustus) - the beginnings of the Roman Empire.The role of perpetual dictator had never existed in the Republic before this time, and it sparked the beginning of an autocratic system.