Moderators: Aldus Marius, Valerius Claudius Iohanes
Under our current system, instead of a Senate, we have the Curia, traditionally where the Senate resided. It, however, consists of the administrators of the forum, and although technically both former and current magistrates, in practice only current magistrates with a few select others, myself included.
The Senate would vote on matters including but not limited to website caretaking, elevation to patrician status or other awards, and in times of a crisis electing a dictator. They also are responsible for organizing elections for magistrates.
I didn't want this one rogatio to be too bloated, so I'm cutting it up into pieces.
There will be censors, the number of which determined by the number of active sodales, elected by the Comitia annually. Their function is to evaluate applications for either the Societas to become a sodalis or the Senatus to become a senator. The consuls are to review the applications and accept them if they meet the requirements, and reject them if they do not, but nevertheless all applicants confirmed or denied must be reported to the Senate. The reviewal of applications will be held monthly.
Marius is correct in assuming that as of now, it only applies to the website.
P. Scribonius Martialis wrote:The discussion may be cut to pieces but you will appreciate that we cannot make a final determination on the merits of this package of reform until we have seen the whole.
Is the role of the censors to provide information about applicants so that they can make an informed choice? If I understand the procedure correctly it runs:
application -> censor -> consul
If this rogatio is about replacing ad hoc arrangements regarding the website with an institution of wider membership, then I support it. Who could object to limits placed on arbitrary power?
I don't see any other practical way of doing this except making one giant and bloated rogatio detailing the whole plan. But what is wrong with the plan I outlined already? That was the whole purpose of writing the plan, was so that everyone can see my full intentions before proposing individual pieces of legislation.
Of the only two people who've managed to really screw us over, one of them left in a huff and took a good chunk of our history with him; the other one neglected to pay the rent. Neither man violated a single provision of any Regula; though Consul Coruncanius had no authority to dissolve the 'government', there was nothing explicitly barring him from doing so. Legislation is not the answer to that problem; Romanization is--for I would hope that a real Roman would need no such laws, being sufficiently bound by disciplina et fides among other things.
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