What was the consequence of the establishment of freedom?
22.

For what purpose was the censorship instituted?
23.

What change took place in the constitution of the senate?
FOOTNOTES: [1] The same remark may be applied to the Scottish clans and the ancient Irish septs, which were very similar to the Roman _gentes_.
[2] When the plebeians endeavoured to procure the repeal of the laws which prohibited the intermarriage of the patricians and plebeians, the principal objection made by the former was, that these rights and obligations of the gentes (jura gentium) would be thrown into confusion.
[3] This was also the case with the Irish tanists, or chiefs of septs; the people elected a tanist, but their choice was confined to the members of the ruling family.
[4] See Historical Miscellany Part III.Chap.

i.
[5] They were called "patres nunorum gentium," the senators of the inferior gentes.
[6] The "comitia curiata," assembled in the comi'tium, the general assemblies of the people were held in the forum.

The patrician curiae were called, emphatically, the council of the people; (concilium populi;) the third estate was called plebeian, (plebs.) This distinction between _populus_ and _plebs_ was disregarded after the plebeians had established their claim to equal rights.