1. Roman Republic Governmental Changes
2 Consuls – pick up king’s imperium and symbols (sella curulis & lictors with fasces)
Served one year
Elected by Comitia Centuriata
After the year, become Senators

2. Other Magistrates Praetors – judicial Quaestors – financial
Censors – taxes & citizen status
All from Patrician Classes

3. Conflict of Orders Plebeian Issues
Military obligations & state’s dependence on them. Rewards?
Problems of debt
Price and supplies of grain

4. Gradual Compromises Tribunes of the Plebes (plebeian magistrates)
450/451 BC “Twelve Tables” codified customs and traditions – Maintained Status Quo
4th Century
Attempts to control interest rates & usury
New land acquired by war distributed to poor
Greater authority to people’s assemblies
By 367 plebeians could hold the consulship
By 351 plebeians could hold the censorship

5. 3rd & 2nd Centuries
Aristocracy of birth and wealth slowly replaced by aristocracy of office.
Nobiles – families with at least one consul
Novus homo – “New man” first consul in family