WCivitas sine suffragio was a level of citizenship in the Roman Republic which granted all the rights of Roman citizenship except the right to vote in popular assemblies. This status was first extended to some of the city-states which had been incorporated into the Republic following the break-up of the Latin League in 338 BCE. It became the standard Romanization policy for incorporating conquered regions in building the Roman Empire.
WIn Roman law, a constitution is a generic name for a legislative enactment by a Roman emperor. It includes edicts, decrees and rescripts. Mandata (instructions) given by the Emperor to officials were not Constitutions but created legal rules that could be relied upon by individuals.
WPublius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a consul of ancient Rome in 191 BC. He was a son of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus. Sometimes referred to as Scipio Nasica the First to distinguish him from his son and grandson, he was a cousin of Scipio Africanus.
WIus Italicum was an honorable law that conferred on particular cities of the Early Roman Empire by the emperors. This law did not describe any status of citizenship, but granted to colonial provinces outside Italy the legal fiction that they were on Italian soil. This meant that it was governed under Roman law rather than local or Hellenistic law, provinces had a greater degree of autonomy in their relations with provincial governors, people born in the city automatically gained Roman citizenship, and was exempt from certain taxes, including land taxes. As citizens of Rome, people were able to buy and sell property, were exempt from land tax, and the poll tax and were entitled to protection under Roman law. Ius Italicum was the highest liberty a municipality or province could obtain and was considered very favorable. Emperors, such as Augustus and Septimius Severus, made use of the law during their reign.
WThe Lex Aelia et Fufia was established around the year 150 BC in the Roman Republic. The presumed subject of this legislation was the extension of the right of "obnuntiatio", that is, reporting unfavorably concerning the omens observed at the Legislative Assemblies, thus forcing an end to public business until the next lawful day. This right, previously reserved to the College of Augurs, was extended to all of the magistrates, thus denying a key political advantage to politicians who were members of that College. This law was repealed in 58 BC by the Leges Clodiae.
WThe Lex Ursonensis is the foundation charter of the Caesarean colonia Iulia Genetiva at Urso near Osuna in southern Spain. A copy of its text was inscribed on bronze under the Flavians, portions of which were discovered in 1870/71. The original law spanned nine tablets with three or five columns of text each and comprised over 140 sections (rubricae). Of these four tablets survive, including sections 61-82, 91-106 and 123-134. Remains are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid.
WThe Plebiscitum Ovinium was an initiative by the Plebeian Council that transferred the power to revise the list of members of the Roman Senate from consuls to censors.