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==History== |
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It all started in 495 BC when Plebians on the Aventine hill went on strike against the Roman government and declared secession from Rome meaning to found a new city harkoning back to the legendary founding of Rome when Remus aimed to build a city on the Aventine but was killed by his brother Romulus. The striking Plebians went on strike in protest against the aristocratic and unfair laws of the Roman republic |
It all started in 495 BC when Plebians on the Aventine hill went on strike against the Roman government and declared secession from Rome meaning to found a new city harkoning back to the legendary founding of Rome when Remus aimed to build a city on the Aventine but was killed by his brother Romulus. The striking Plebians went on strike in protest against the aristocratic and unfair laws of the Roman republic |
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which prevented any Pleb from ever becoming the consul of Rome. They demanded fairness as they were all Roman so had the same rights as any other Roman. The strike eventually suceeded and the law was changed to allow Plebian candidates to stand though few did because they felt it was above them and it cost a lot of mony that they did not have in order to run. |
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The idea of organising the state for the benefit of the people against the elites came up again with the Gracchi brothers. They were [[File:Pop.png]] [[Populism|Populist]] tribune of the plebs who attempted to address economic distress and its military consequences. They implemented land reforms that reclaimed lands from wealthy land owners that could then be granted to soldiers, by restoring land to displaced peasants, by providing subsidized grain for the needy, and by having the Republic pay for the clothing of its poorest soldiers. They were both killed, Tiberius Gracchus by being clubbed to death and Gaius Gracchus by suicide. The next time they held power was with Gaius Marius and his son Gaius Marius the Younger, when the Marians seized power and held Rome from 87 BC to 82 BC. They were defeated in Sulla's Second Civil War. The third time they were in power was with when Julius Caesar was elected as consul in 59 BC. Caesar managed to pass an agrarian law for a land reform, which had not been done since the agrarian law of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus of 133 BC as all other attempts at agrarian legislation had been thwarted by the opposition, the Optimates. Then after the Caesar's Civil War, Caesar held power as dictator from 49 BC to when he was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar relied on the support of the people for his power. After the defeat of Sextus Pompey in the Sicilian Revolt by the Second Triumvirate in 36 BC, the Populares ceased to be a relevant political label. |
The idea of organising the state for the benefit of the people against the elites came up again with the Gracchi brothers. They were [[File:Pop.png]] [[Populism|Populist]] tribune of the plebs who attempted to address economic distress and its military consequences. They implemented land reforms that reclaimed lands from wealthy land owners that could then be granted to soldiers, by restoring land to displaced peasants, by providing subsidized grain for the needy, and by having the Republic pay for the clothing of its poorest soldiers. They were both killed, Tiberius Gracchus by being clubbed to death and Gaius Gracchus by suicide. The next time they held power was with Gaius Marius and his son Gaius Marius the Younger, when the Marians seized power and held Rome from 87 BC to 82 BC. They were defeated in Sulla's Second Civil War. The third time they were in power was with when Julius Caesar was elected as consul in 59 BC. Caesar managed to pass an agrarian law for a land reform, which had not been done since the agrarian law of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus of 133 BC as all other attempts at agrarian legislation had been thwarted by the opposition, the Optimates. Then after the Caesar's Civil War, Caesar held power as dictator from 49 BC to when he was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar relied on the support of the people for his power. After the defeat of Sextus Pompey in the Sicilian Revolt by the Second Triumvirate in 36 BC, the Populares ceased to be a relevant political label. |
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