Military powerful orator with consular capacity
The military powerful orators with consular capacity were supreme Magistrat S in the first times of the Roman République, between the years 444 av. J. - C. and 367 av. J. - C.
This Magistrat RUE was installation under the pressure of the powerful orators of the plebs in the series of democratic projections which followed the fall of the décemvirs despotic, in 444 av. J. - C..
Like the Consul S, the military powerful orators with consular capacity were elected by the Comices centuriates for a one year mandate, and shared the supreme capacity (the consular Imperium ). However, the candidatures of plebeian origin were accepted, which is not the case for the elections with the consulate, held at that time for only the Patricien S. Another difference lies in the collegial structure of the military powerful orators at consular capacity: whereas the Consul S were always two, the powerful orators could be three, four or five, according to the military needs and the number of faces on which Rome was to fight. The record number of eight military powerful orators was reached in 403 av. J. - C. during the war against Véies. According to certain sources, there would have been nine consular powerful orators in 380 av. J. - C.
For this 77 years period, the Romans élirent 51 times of the military powerful orators with consular capacity, the Roman Sénat deciding with each electoral renewal if one would elect military powerful orators or consuls, according to the political tensions of the moment.
In spite of the opening of the candidatures, the Plébéien S were seldom elected because the electoral system privileged the vote of the Patricien S, which generated frustrations among the Plébéien S.
This magistrature was removed definitively and replaced by the Consul In 367 av. J. - C. by the Tribuns of the plebs Caius Licinius Stolon and Lucius Sextius Lateranus, which made vote the Lois licinio-sextiennes imposing that one of both Consul S would be obligatorily Plébéien.
List military powerful orators with consular capacity
See List of the consular Powerful orators .
Fine of the period of the military powerful orators on consular capacity, final return to the consuls , to see List of the consuls of the Roman Republic