[History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD by Robert F. Pennell]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD CHAPTER VIII 6/10
All the decisions of the Comitia Tributa (_plebiscita_), if sanctioned by the Senate and Comitia Centuriata, were made binding upon patricians and plebeians alike.
This assembly now became of equal importance with the other two. III.
The persons of the Tribunes, Aediles, and other plebeian officers, were to be considered sacred. IV.
The Tribunes could take part in the debates of the Senate, and veto any of its decisions. Two years later (447), the election of the Quaestors, who must still be patricians, was intrusted to the Comitia Tributa.
Heretofore they had been appointed by the Consuls. In 445 the Tribune Canuleius proposed a bill which was passed, and called the CANULEIAN LAW, giving to the plebeians the right of intermarriage (_connubium_) with the patricians, and enacting that all issue of such marriages should have the rank of the father. Canuleius also proposed another bill which he did not carry; viz.
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