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Footnotes
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By the sacred laws, the plebeians had the power of making the plebiscita by themselves, without admitting the patricians into their assembly — Ibid., Book vi, p. 410; Book vii, p. 430.
[43]
By the law enacted after the expulsion of the decemvirs, the patricians were made subject to the plebiscita, though they had not a right of voting there. Livy, Book iii, p. 55, and Dionysius Halicarnassus, Book xi, p. 725. This law was confirmed by that of Publius Philo the dictator, in the year of Rome 416. Livy, Book viii. 12.
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