L'assemblée du peuple à Rome comme rituel de consensus

Hiérarchie politique et intensité de la volonté populaire

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ID2960167
AuthorsEgon Flaig (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume140
Issue1
Pages12-20
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueActes de la recherche en sciences sociales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0335-5322 • E-ISSN: 1955-2564
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/arss.2001.2832
OpenAlexW2122058896
LanguageFR
Citations received9

Popular assemblies in Rome as a ritual of consensus. Political hierarchy and the intensity of the popular vote. The Republic of Rome voted? To be sure this republic was not a democracy, and yet the people often voted. Opposite the people, a ranked aristocracy comprising 300 senators (600 from 80 ВСЕ). This aristocracy was dependent on votes expressed in popular assemblies: not only for elections, in which the people determined aristocratic careers, but also for the promulgation of laws and the decisions taken in special cases. The procedures - more or less egalitarian and more or less hierarchical - governing the citizens' vote depended on the kind of popular assembly. How could the people of Rome express their will in such a system? Was voting simply a means for the people to express their will? These questions are much debated. Increasingly, one reads in Anglo-American publications that Rome was a democracy. The arguments advanced are often of a constitutional (juridical) nature and are sometimes quite vague. If one examines the ritual aspects of the popular gatherings in Rome, one gets an entirely different picture

Art · Democracy · Hierarchy · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Promulgation · Sociology · The Republic · Theology · Voting · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · European Political History Analysis · Law · Philosophy

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