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.

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