So fun question - when you have to lay out the political structure of the Roman Republic in lecture, what do you discuss first? The Senate? Magistrates? Assemblies? FWIW, I always end up laying out major magistracies, then the assemblies then elect them, then the senate.
Yes, correct. Cicero is explicit that this is the intent of the system. The later voters are generally poorer and the system is intentionally weighted to de-emphasize and marginalize their votes.
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But what I don’t get is what’s the point of bribing the lower orders if they don’t matter?
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It's important to distinguish the capite censi (who don't matter) with the pedites (the infantry) who do. The latter still aren't wealthy but make up by far the largest set of centuries in the comitia centuriata.
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