plebiscita

In the early 5th century, the plebeians organized their own assembly, the concilium plebis, whose resolutions, called plebiscita, were binding only on plebeians.

e. The Early Republic 2001

Indeed, even in the most stormy times, the plebiscita of the people, when the Senate did not interfere with them, always went through quietly and by large majorities.

The Social Contract 2002

They were convoked by the tribunes alone; at them the tribunes were elected and passed their plebiscita.

The Social Contract 2002

It made plebiscita passed by the concilium plebis binding on all Romans.

f. The Conquest of Italy 2001

Dictator, then those of Censor and of Praetor, and finally, in 286, by the law of HORTENSIUS, the plebiscita became binding upon all the people without the sanction of the Senate and Comitia Centuriáta.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

All the decisions of the Comitia Tribúta (_plebiscita_), if sanctioned by the Senate and Comitia Centuriáta, were made binding upon patricians and plebeians alike.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

It was in this assembly that the tribunes were elected, and there they passed their plebiscita.

The Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau 1947

And in fact, even in the most tumultuous times, the plebiscita of the people were always tranquil, and there was always a great majority of suffrages when the senate did not mix with them: the citizens having but one interest, the people had but one will.

The Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau 1947

They were the keepers of the decrees of the Senate, and of the plebiscita.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

In 287 B.C. the Hortensian law made the plebiscita independent of the sanction of the Senate.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852