Sentence examples for popular assemblies from inspiring English sources

In 1471 the popular assemblies lost their financial powers.

During the republic there were two different popular assemblies, the centuriate assembly and the tribal assembly.

Legislation and judicial principles and practice evolved piecemeal through the work of popular assemblies and popular tribunals.

Polybius greatly admired Rome's balanced constitution, with its elements of monarchy (magistrates), aristocracy (Senate), and democracy (popular assemblies).

The post-civil war divide between victors and defeated dissolved in the popular assemblies of the squares and in clouds of teargas.

"We started as a social project, the construction of popular assemblies, through football," says their editor, "so football lies at the heart of who we are".

The demagogue tribune or consul could use the legal machinery of the popular assembly (hence such men are called populares), while the commander could rely on his army in the pursuit of private ambition.

It also replaced the Pnyx as the meeting place for the popular assembly.

Usually attended by the greater nobles and bishops, the witan was in no sense a popular assembly.

Veche, popular assembly that was a characteristic institution in Russia from the 10th to the 15th century.

Through his tribunician power he could also summon the popular assembly and participate fully in its proceedings.