plebeian in the PONS Dictionary

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It functioned as a legislative assembly, through which the plebeians (commoners) could pass laws, elect magistrates, and try judicial cases.
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The magistracies were originally restricted to patricians, but were later opened to common people, or plebeians.
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Plebeian tribunes were appointed, with sacrosanct status and the right of veto in legislative debate.
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Many of these were connected to famine and manifestations of plebeian unrest, rather than war.
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Around that time local magnates tried to impose the system of paszczyzna onto local plebeians, which rose tensions to record levels.
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They attempted to pass land reform legislation that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians, in addition to other reform measures.
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In the context of this unequal status, plebeians would take action to secure concessions for themselves using the threat of secession.
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In time, however, the differences between the plebeian aediles and the curule aediles disappeared.
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This last is a controversial statement as some historians consider that something near a third of early consuls have names stemming from plebeian families.
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Interestingly, the movement opposed football, as a plebeian sport.
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