Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "How They DId It - Elections in Ancient Rome" video.

  1. At the beginning of the Republic, plebeians were not even full citizens. They didn't fought wars, and they didn't vote. The story of the Republican institutions, is the story of how the poors managed to be more and more represented over time. With the opening of the comitia to plebeians, and with the institutions of the Tribunum Plebis and the Plebiscitum.
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  2. Chalking the toga... (yeah, "Candidatus" means "whitened", because the candidates worn togas that were made extra-white with chalk)
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