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James Lewis. The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE TWO GREAT REPUBLICS
ROME. AND. THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER I
The Two Republics
CHAPTER II
Roman Legislative Assemblies
CHAPTER III
The First Great Melting Pot
CHAPTER IV
The Early Republic
CHAPTER V
The Period of Foreign Conquest
CHAPTER VI
The Tribes, the Colonies, and the Provinces
CHAPTER VII
The Crisis—The Attempted Reforms of the Gracchi
CHAPTER VIII
Marius and Sulla
CHAPTER IX
Pompey
CHAPTER X
Cicero and Catiline
CHAPTER XI
Julius Cæsar
CHAPTER XII
Post-Mortem
CHAPTER XIII
The Comparison
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James Lewis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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It was these conditions which brought about the remarkable spectacle of what may be well designated the first recorded strike in history—a strike in the Roman army. In 495 B.C. the Roman citizens were summoned to take the field for another military campaign. They refused to obey. One of the consuls, Publius Servilius, however, induced them to make the campaign by suspending some of the laws bearing most heavily upon the poor and by releasing all persons in prison for debt. But hardly had the army returned from a victorious campaign than the other consul, Appius Claudius, as a reward for their victory began to enforce the debtor laws with extraordinary severity.
Once more, in the following year, the plebeians were induced to take the field, mainly on account of the popularity of the dictator appointed for the management of this campaign, Marius Valerius, and his promise that upon the termination of the campaign permanent reforms would be made in the law. Again the Roman army was victorious, and again the patricians broke faith with the plebeians and refused to carry out their promised reforms.
