Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica”, published in 1911, is a work by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge. It explores elements such as consuls, princeps and magistrates.

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Since the theory of the persistence of the republican constitution was of the essence of the Principate, the consuls necessarily lost little of their outward position and dignity under the rule of the Caesars. The consulship was the only office in which a citizen, other than a member of the imperial house, might have the princeps as a colleague, and in the interval between the death or deposition of one princeps and the appointment of another the consuls resumed their normal position as the heads of the state (cf. Herodian ii. 12) . ”

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Each of the pair of magistrates could act up to the full powers of the imperium; but the dissent of his colleague rendered his decision or his action null and void. At the same time the principle of a merely annual tenure of office was insisted on. The two magistrates at the close of their year of office were bound to transmit their power to successors; and these successors whom they nominated were obliged to seek the suffrages of the people. The only body known to us as electing the consuls during the republican period was the comitia centuriata (see Comitia) . ”

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Most of the internal history of Rome down to the beginning of the third century B.C. consists in a series of attacks, whether intentional or accidental, on the power of the executive. As the consuls are the sole representatives of higher executive authority in early times, this history is one of a progressive decline in the originally wide and arbitrary powers of the office. Their right of summary criminal jurisdiction was weakened by the successive laws of appeal (provocatio) ”

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ A restored power of jurisdiction is indeed one of the features of their position during this time, and it is probable that the civil appeals which came to the senate were delegated to the consuls. They also acted for a time as delegates to the princeps in matters of Chancery jurisdiction such as trusts and guardianship (Mommsen, Staatsrecht, ii. p. 103) . The consulship was also a preparation for certain high commands, such as the government of certain public and imperial provinces (see Province) and the praefecture of the city. ”

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ At this time the consuls entered office on the 1st of January (a practice which commenced in 153 B.C.) , and their military command began on the 1st of March. They could hold this military command until they were superseded in the following March, and thus their tenure of power was practically raised to fourteen months. But meanwhile the home officials invested with the imperium had proved insufficient for the military needs of the empire, and the system of prolonging the command (prorogatio imperii) had been growing up (see Province) . ”

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ In the first place it was their duty, before the development of the standing commissions which originated in the middle of the 2nd century B.C., to set in motion the criminal law against offenders for the cognizance of ordinary, as opposed to political, crimes. ”

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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Certainly the government by pro-magistrates becomes the rule after this period (cf. Cicero, De natura deorum, ii. 3. 9; De divinatione, ii. 36. 76, 77) , although there are several instances of consuls assuming the active command of provinces between the years 74 and 55 B.C. (Mommsen, Rechtsfrage, p. 30) , and Cicero declares that the consul has a right to approach every province (“consules, quibus more majorum concessum est vel omnes adire provincias,” Cicero, Ad Atticum, viii. 15. 3) . ”

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