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Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Empire

Main articles: Constitution of the Roman Empire and Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Empire

The Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Empire were political institutions in the ancient Roman Empire. During the reign of the secondRoman Emperor, Tiberius, the powers that had been held by the Roman assemblies were transferred to the senate. The neutering of the assemblies had become inevitable for reasons beyond the fact that they were composed of the rabble of Rome. The electors were, in general, ignorant as to the merits of the important questions that were laid before them,^[19] and often willing to sell their votes to the highest bidder. After the founding of the Roman Empire, the People of Rome continued to organize by Centuries and by Tribes, but by this point, these divisions had lost most of their relevance.^[20]