ROMAN+REPUBLICAN+GOVERNMENT


 * EXPLAIN THESE TERMS RELATING TO ROMAN REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT:

1. __Mos Maiorum__ -** A Latin phrase referring to the Roman Republic's unwritten constitution. (kmu) It literally translates as //custom of our ancestors.(ljo)//


 * 2. __Cursus Honorum__ -** Course of Honors, the political track or sequence of political offices that originated during the Roman Republic. (kmu)


 * 3. __Mixed Constitution__ -** mixed elements of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy in the Roman republican constitution. (alim)


 * 4. __Quaestor__ -** A treasury officials. In this office, politicians learned about and participated in the financial affairs of the state. (kmu)


 * 5. __Aedile__-** An office which gave Roman politicians experience in city administration.(zba) Politicians supervised the city's grain and water supply, maintained public order, and arranged entertainment for the populace.(ljo)


 * 6. __Praetor__ -** A judge. In this office, politicians acted as judges in court cases. (kmu) Many politicians had already been involved in court as lawyers. (ljo)

The consuls were the equivalent of an American president, and they also had the authority to appoint or become a dictator.(kms)
 * 7.** __**Consul**__ - The Chief executive officer of the Roman Republic. There were two consuls elected at the same time to direct the civil and military affairs of the state for one year. (kmu)


 * 8. __Proconsul and Propraetor__ -** Governors of Rome's foreign provinces (kmu)


 * 9. __Senate__-** A body of experienced Roman politicians which gave orders, decrees, and advice to the magistrates of Rome. (kpa)

His main goal was to protect the poor people from abuse by the upper class (kmu)
 * 10. __Tribune__-** A lower class representative of the people who sat in the Senate and made sure that the lower class had fair representation.(ama)


 * 11. __Censor__ -** an honorary officer, elected for 18 months, to oversee the tax rolls. He also counted the number of people required to pay taxes. (kmu)

Caesar was given a ten year dictatorship around 46 B.C and it was one of the causes of the fall of the Roman Republic. (WCO)
 * 12. __Dictator-__** an emergency ruler, appointed by the Senate, with absolute power. Dictators were given a maximum of six months to solve a major national crisis. (zba) If the crisis were averted before six months, the dictator was obliged to retire, and the normal machinery of the Republican government would begin working again.(ljo)


 * 13. __Senatus Consultum Ultimum__-** "Final Decree of the Senate" for the defense of the Republic, the first step in the appointment of a dictator. (dbe)


 * 14. __SPQR__-**Senatus Populusque Romanus, the abbreviation for "The Senate and People of Rome." (ama)