The Constitution of the Roman RepublicPDF电子书下载

Ⅰ Introduction 1

Sources of Legal Authority 3

Ⅱ A Roman Political Year 9

Ⅲ Polybius and the Constitution 16

Ⅳ The Story of the Origin of the Constitution 27

Ⅴ The Assemblies 40

Comitia， Contio， and Concilium 42

Assembly Procedure 43

The Organization of the Different Assemblies 49

Obstruction， Abrogation， Annulment 61

The Nature of Roman Legislation 63

Ⅵ The Senate 65

Membership of the Senate 68

The Place and Time of Meetings 72

Procedure 75

The Authority of the Senate 86

Appendix — The So-Called Last Decree 89

Ⅶ The Higher Magistrates and the Pro-Magistrates 94

The Nature of the Magistrate’s Power 94

The Functions of Magistrates 104

Ⅷ Tribunes， Aediles， and Minor Magistrates 121

Tribunis Plebis 121

Aedilis 129

Quaestor 133

Minor Magistrates 137

The Cursus Honorum 144

Ⅸ Criminal Justice 147

The Early Republican Background 149

The Development of the Law in the Later Republic 157

Ⅹ The Influence of Society and Religion 163

Aristocratic Families and their Values 164

Plebeian Connections and Dependence 176

Religion 182

Ⅺ The Balance of the Constitution 191

The Magistrates 192

The Senate and the Aristocracy 196

The Power of the People 199

Changes in the Balance 208

Ⅻ The Mixed Constitution and Republican Ideology 214

The Mixed Constitution in Classical Greece and inPolybius 214

Cicero’s De Re Publica 220

Cicero’s De Legibus 225

ⅩⅢ The Republic Remembered 233

The Middle Ages 235

Machiavelli 236

The Antiquarians 244

The Roman Republic and the English Revolution 247

Montesquieu and the Founding Fathers 251

Bibliography 256

Index of Ancient Sources Cited 269

General Index 293