The adoption of tribunician power by the Emperor was part of the gradual creation of the Empire that, at first, was done exclusively within the officially republican framework of the Roman state. The process started when Octavian (63 BC – 14 AD) renounced his provisional powers that he held by virtue of his triumvirate in 28 BC . His power, in what concerns the Roman constitution, was obviously …show more content…
They were considered to be sacred, and in this way gained special protection against any sort of attack or obstruction. First, G. Soulier in L’inviolabilité parlementaire en droit droit français and then Marc van der Hulst in The parliamentary mandate. Global comparative studies suggest that there is a sort of similarity between the immunity of the tribunes who were inviolable and considered sacred as the representatives of the sacred demos and the parliamentary immunity of the modern political representatives