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The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

Note 1076 — Chapter IX · THE COMITIA CURIATA

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The sources uniformly represent the kings as acting alone in the admission of individuals and of entire communities to citizenship. The view of Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 29, that the assembly coöperated rests upon his theory of an original popular sovereignty and of an original patrician state, neither of which has any basis in fact.

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