Leges Liciniae Sextiae

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The Leges Liciniae Sextiae ( Latin "Laws of Licinius and Sextius") are the tribunes of the people of the year 367 BC. Chr., Gaius Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus , declining laws ( leges ) , which, in addition to an agricultural law , contained the decisive provisions for the development of the state constitution of the Roman Republic : From then on, the state was headed by two consuls , one of which is now Plebeians could be, among them a praetor responsible for the administration of justice , plus two curular aediles , who were alternately provided by plebeians and patricians .

With the leges Liciniae Sextiae , after using the most important means of pressure of the plebeians, their departure from the city and their refusal to work as part of a secessio plebis , it was for the first time regulated that even the highest imperial offices of the cursus honorum , the consulate and the praetur, with representatives of the plebs could be occupied.

literature

  • Jochen Bleicken : The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Basics and development (= UTB . 460). 7th, completely revised and enlarged edition. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1995, ISBN 3-506-99405-0 , p. 105 ff.
  • Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp : The Origin of Nobility. Studies on the social and political history of the Roman Republic in the 4th century. v. Chr. Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-04621-6 , p. 23 ff., (Also: Bochum, Universität, Dissertation, 1984).
  • Hans Volkmann : Lex, leges. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 603-609 (here: Col. 607 No. 19).