CHAPTER V

THE PEOPLE AND ITS POWERS

Legislation, 238. Form of a _lex_, 242. Control of external matters, 243. Elective powers, 245. Judicial powers, 245. Rescission of sentences by the people, 248. Remission of outlawry and amnesty, 249. Grounds of invalidity of popular acts, 249. The different _comitia_; the _comitia curiata_, 250. The _comitia centuriata_ and its reorganisation, 252. The _comitia tributa_, 253. The _concilium plebis_, 253. Elections to the religious colleges, 254. Formalities observed in the meetings of the assemblies, 255.

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