The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic

by Callie Williamson

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For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable. Callie Williamson's book, The Law of the Roman People, finds that the key to Rome's survival and growth during the most formative period of empire, roughly 350 to 44 B.C.E., lies in its hitherto enigmatic public lawmaking assemblies which helped extend Roman influence and control. Williamson show more bases her rigorous and innovative work on the entire body of surviving laws preserved in ancient reports of proposed and enacted legislation from these public assemblies. show less

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Callie Williamson holds a PhD in Roman history from the University of London and is practicing law in North Carolina.

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Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History
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342.45Society, government, & cultureLawU.S. Constitution - Bill of Rights, AmendmentsEuropeItalic Peninsula
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KJA2850 .W55LawRoman LawRoman LawPublic law
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