After the kings in Rome were expelled the plebeians thought this was a time to gain rights equal to the patricians. But this would not be the case. The patricians remained rich and privileged and the plebeians remained poor and without the power to make and change the laws.
Rome celebrated victory, thanks to the plebeians who did the real fighting. After the war the plebeians could still vote in the comitia centuriata but they could not hold any of the new offices or sit in the senate. Even after they had defeated their enemies for Roam, the plebeians were still being treated poorly by the patricians. The plebeians felt that the Patricians were no different than the kings they had worked together to oust. Rome was now an aristocratic republic, …show more content…
On the other hand, the plebeians left their families and the safety of their homes to fight the enemy. While they were away winning battles, the enemy destroyed their farms and homes and forced their families off the property. After the war, the plebeians were forced to live in poverty. So the patricians loaned money to the plebeians and punished them if they did not, or could not, repay the loans. If a plebeian could not pay back money borrowed from a patrician, he could be arrested, thrown in jail, or even forced to be a slave to his creditor. After the war, the patricians also controlled all of the land that had been taken from Rome’s defeated enemies. The patricians decided to make the land “public” and rent it to the plebeians, thereby, pushing them even deeper in debt to the aristocratic patricians. It was these harsh debtor laws that led to the first plebeian revolt. (Morey, 1901) Since there was no way the plebeians could directly force the patricians to change, they decided to desert their general and “marched in full array to a hill beyond the Anio, which they called the Sacred Mount (Mons Sacer), and proposed to form an independent city (B.C. 494).” (Morey, 1901) The patricians, knowing they could not protect themselves without the plebeians, decided it best to …show more content…
They also created a new office so the plebeians would be protected from any more unjust laws or unfair treatment. (Morey, 1901) A Tribunes of the People was created to protect the plebeians. There were two tribunes who were made “inviolable,” that meant that, “they could not be arrested, and that anyone who interfered with them in the exercise of their lawful duty could be put to death.” (Morey, 1901) They could veto any act that “bore unjustly upon any citizen”. Finally the plebeians had real representation and could defend themselves. In the end the plebeian revolt resulted in abolishing the harsh debtor laws. sp. Cassius proposed the first “agrarian law.” intended, “to reform the division of the public land.” Even though the law didn’t take any land away from the patricians, they still stopped it from passing. The patricians even charged Sp. Cassius with treason and beheaded him. So end the end, the patricians started to treat the plebeians more democratically after their safety had been threatened, but it would appear that deep down the patricians were still cruel, greedy
Rome celebrated victory, thanks to the plebeians who did the real fighting. After the war the plebeians could still vote in the comitia centuriata but they could not hold any of the new offices or sit in the senate. Even after they had defeated their enemies for Roam, the plebeians were still being treated poorly by the patricians. The plebeians felt that the Patricians were no different than the kings they had worked together to oust. Rome was now an aristocratic republic, …show more content…
On the other hand, the plebeians left their families and the safety of their homes to fight the enemy. While they were away winning battles, the enemy destroyed their farms and homes and forced their families off the property. After the war, the plebeians were forced to live in poverty. So the patricians loaned money to the plebeians and punished them if they did not, or could not, repay the loans. If a plebeian could not pay back money borrowed from a patrician, he could be arrested, thrown in jail, or even forced to be a slave to his creditor. After the war, the patricians also controlled all of the land that had been taken from Rome’s defeated enemies. The patricians decided to make the land “public” and rent it to the plebeians, thereby, pushing them even deeper in debt to the aristocratic patricians. It was these harsh debtor laws that led to the first plebeian revolt. (Morey, 1901) Since there was no way the plebeians could directly force the patricians to change, they decided to desert their general and “marched in full array to a hill beyond the Anio, which they called the Sacred Mount (Mons Sacer), and proposed to form an independent city (B.C. 494).” (Morey, 1901) The patricians, knowing they could not protect themselves without the plebeians, decided it best to …show more content…
They also created a new office so the plebeians would be protected from any more unjust laws or unfair treatment. (Morey, 1901) A Tribunes of the People was created to protect the plebeians. There were two tribunes who were made “inviolable,” that meant that, “they could not be arrested, and that anyone who interfered with them in the exercise of their lawful duty could be put to death.” (Morey, 1901) They could veto any act that “bore unjustly upon any citizen”. Finally the plebeians had real representation and could defend themselves. In the end the plebeian revolt resulted in abolishing the harsh debtor laws. sp. Cassius proposed the first “agrarian law.” intended, “to reform the division of the public land.” Even though the law didn’t take any land away from the patricians, they still stopped it from passing. The patricians even charged Sp. Cassius with treason and beheaded him. So end the end, the patricians started to treat the plebeians more democratically after their safety had been threatened, but it would appear that deep down the patricians were still cruel, greedy