Roman, Greek, English and American Conceptions of Liberty: A Lecture Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Toronto on Monday, April 20th, 1903 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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For it is inherent in the city-state, which grows out of the family, that power in its first descent, shall fall to the Senate - the great family-heads. Add to this the innate Roman defer ence to age and experience, and the further consideration that the expul sion of the Tarquins disguises probably the removal of an Etruscan overlord ship with greater material resources than early Rome could conceivably have possessed, and we have the ex planation which political philosophy gives for the Senate's accession to power. From the standpoint of the constant struggle of human wills it was, however, a direct usurpation of power and probably the Patrician reply to Servius Tullius' incorporation of the Plebeians within the citizen-body. The Senate controls the new consuls. Thus the long struggle of privilege is set up in Roman history.

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