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Populares ("Favoring the people", singular popularis) were aristocratic leaders in the late Roman Republic who tended to use the people's assemblies in an effort to break the stranglehold of the Senate on political power. Aristocracy is a form of Government, where rule is established through an internal struggle over who has the most status and influence over society and internal relations The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the The Roman Assemblies were institutions in Ancient Rome. They functioned as the machinery of the Roman legislative branch and thus (theoretically at least passed all legislation The Roman Senate was a political institution in Ancient Rome. They were opposed by the conservative Optimates. Optimates (singular optimas, The Best of Men, Italian: ottimati; also known as the priests or boni, the

The populares wanted to strengthen the power of the plebs, sharing riches of the nobility with the people, granting free bread and similar to the poor and resisting too much outbred slavery, since slavery took jobs from free but poor citizens. Plebs were the general body of landowners of Roman Citizens in Ancient Rome. As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another Wanting to make Rome more of a "people's" republic, the populares were popular among the people, granting the power of people's tribunes and weakening the nobles senate. A senate is a Deliberative body, often the Upper house or chamber of a Legislature or Parliament.

Popularis plans included some moving of Roman citizens to provincial colonies; expansion of citizenship to communities outside of Rome and Italy; and modification of the grain dole and monetary value. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The populares' cause reached its peak under the dictatorship of Julius Caesar, the most avid leader of the populares. Dictator was a Political office of the Roman Republic. The dictator was above the three branches of government in the Constitution of the Roman Republic After the creation of the Second Triumvirate (43 BC33 BC), the cause of the populares was essentially lost in the following power struggle. See also the Second Triumvirate (Argentina which held power in 1812 Year 43 BC was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar. Year 33 BC was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar.

Besides Caesar, notable populares included the Gracchi Brothers, Gaius Marius, Publius Clodius Pulcher, and (during the First Triumvirate) Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompey. The Gracchi brothers were a pair of tribunes in 2nd century BC who attempted to pass Land reform legislation in Ancient Rome that would redistribute the major patrician This article is about the Roman statesman who reorganized the army and was seven times Consul Publius Clodius Pulcher (born around 92 BC died January 18, 52 BC was a Roman Politician of the Populares  cause chiefly remembered for his See also the First Triumvirate (Argentina which came to power in 1811 Marcus Licinius Crassus ( Latin: M·LICINIVS·P·F·P·N·CRASSVS (ca Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'pɑmpi/ Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir ( Classical Latin abbreviation Both Pompey and Crassus had, though, fought with Sulla during the civil war and after the death of Crassus, Pompey eventually became more and more of a conservative optimate. Sulla's second civil war was one of a series of civil wars of Ancient Rome.


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