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The Roman senate did not make the laws; it was the Roman people who voted and passed the laws. All the senate could do, legally, was to pass resolutions and to propose laws which were then given to the voting assemblies. At any rate, the senate met in various places over its history. Ideally, it met in the curia or senate house, but the darn thing seemed to be always burning down and the senate had to meet in a temple that was large enough to accommodate them. Pompey solved the problem by giving the senate a built in meeting place in his theater although at the time the senate had a meeting place. However during the riot at Caesar's funeral it burnt down---again.

In the Early Republic laws were proposed by the consuls who put most of them to the vote of the assembly of the tribes (comitia tributa) and some of them to the vote of the assembly of the soldiers (comitia centuriata). These laws were called Leges comitalis because the name for an assembly was comitia. By the Mid Republic the main proposers of laws were the plebeian tribunes who put them to the vote of the plebeian council. These were called plebiscites, the name of the resolutions of the plebeian council.

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