Chapter II: The Growth of the Republican Constitution

Institution of consuls and limitation of the _imperium_, 78.
Appointment of quaestors, 80. The Senate of the early Republic,
81. Creation of the dictatorship, 84. Government of the patrician
aristocracy, 85. Rights of the plebeians, 87. Social struggles of
the _plebs_, 89. Creation of the tribunate, 93. The powers of the
_tribuni plebs_, 94. The _concilium plebis_, 96. The aediles of the
_plebs_, 97. The _sacrosanctitas_ of the plebeian magistrates, 99.
The _concilium plebis_ meets by tribes, 100. Creation of a _comitia
tributa_, 102. Agitation for the publication of a code, 102. The
Twelve Tables, 104. Attempt at despotism made by the decemvirs, 107.
The Valerio-Horatian laws, 108. Intermarriage permitted between the
orders, 111. Institution of _tribuni militum consulari potestate_,
112. Institution of the censorship, 115. Struggle for the consulship,
118. The Licinio-Sextian laws, 119. Institution of the praetorship
and the curule aedileship, 120. Admission of the plebeians to
office, 122; and to the religious colleges, 123. Rights secured to
the _plebs_ by the _leges Publiliae_ and the _lex Hortensia_, 124.
Results of the tendencies of plebeian emancipation, 127. The new
nobility, 129. Continued distinction between the orders, 131.

CHAPTER III

THE CLASSES OF THE POPULATION AND THE THEORY OF THE
CONSTITUTION IN THE DEVELOPED REPUBLIC

_THE CLASSES OF THE POPULATION_

1. Modes of acquiring citizenship, 132. Modes of enfranchisement,
134. _Ingenuitas_, 135. Rights and duties of the citizen, 136.
Developed conception of _capitis deminutio_, 138. Changes in the
Roman family, 140. The condition of the slave, 141. The freedmen,
144.

_THE THEORY OF THE CONSTITUTION_

2. Complexity of the constitution, 146. Theory of the state as
revealed in the _interregnum_, 147. Separate existence of the
_plebs_, 149. The weakening of the magistracy and the resulting
ascendancy of the Senate, 150.