The monarch was general of the army, a high priest,[7] and first magistrate of the realm; he administered justice in person every ninth day, but an appeal lay from his sentence, in criminal cases, to the general assemblies of the people.

The pontiffs and augurs, however, were in some measure independent of the sovereign, and assumed the uncontrolled direction of the religion of the state.
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The entire constitution was remodelled by Ser'vius Tul'lius, and a more liberal form of government introduced.

His first and greatest achievement was the formation of the plebeians into an organized order of the state, invested with political rights.

He divided them into four cities and twenty-six rustic tribes, and thus made the number of tribes the same as that of the curiae.