Note 1166 — Chapter V · THE PEOPLE AND ITS POWERS
Reading edition
Cic. pro Domo 20, 53 “quae (est) sententia Caeciliae legis et Didiae nisi haec, ne populo necesse sit in conjunctis rebus compluribus aut id quod nolit accipere aut id quod velit repudiare?” The principle had existed as early as the lex Acilia Repetundarum of 122 (l. 72). See Mommsen Staatsr. iii. p. 336.