This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...must not see in that a reversion to the concentration of powers which existed in other days for the benefit of the kings and the first consuls. /The imperial authority had for its essential basis two powers unknown to the epoch of the kings: --the proconsular imperium, the outcome of the system of prorogation ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...must not see in that a reversion to the concentration of powers which existed in other days for the benefit of the kings and the first consuls. /The imperial authority had for its essential basis two powers unknown to the epoch of the kings: --the proconsular imperium, the outcome of the system of prorogation of office, and the tribunitial power, the outcome of the plebeian institutions. The princeps received the proconsular imperium from the senate or from the army; then the people transferred to him, in the law of which I have just spoken--that law which the texts of the period of decadence, and they alone, speak of as the lex regia--the tribunitial power, and a certain number of other special jurisdictions, the list of which was extended 1 as time went on. These were the two necessary and sufficient bases of his predominance. He was inviolable by virtue of his tribunitial power, which, unlike that of the tribunes, was unlimited in time and space. He was also for that reason superior to all the magistrates. He possessed, by virtue of his proconsular imperium, which was in like manner extended to the whole empire, the exclusive command of all the troops, and the right of appointing to all ranks. He had the exclusive right of concluding treaties, and of making peace or war. And that, without taking into account anything else, would have sufficed to place him above the senate, even if the division of provinces, of judiciary authority, and of financial powers, had been observed literally. But, indeed, it never was so: he had from the first a right of preference, in case of conflict, in judiciary matters; he soon intervened, by virtue of his stronger proconsular im-perium, in the administration of the senatorial provinces; and in financial matters, ..
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