Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Constitution of the Roman Republic

Major contributors: RomanHistorian and me.

Mos maiorum. Nergaal (talk) 23:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - this topic is basically "Governmental Structure of the Roman Republic", and as such, the main article, intuitively, doesn't quite fit, but I think it does fit because this is a historical constitution so the contents of the main article is somewhat different than that of one of a current constitution. As an aside, there could be a "History of the Constitution of the Roman Republic" subtopic which would contain, I think, Conflict of the Orders, Constitutional Reforms of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Constitutional Reforms of Julius Caesar. And another for "Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Republic", containing Curiate Assembly, Century Assembly, Tribal Assembly and Plebeian Council - rst20xx (talk) 15:22, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote much of the article, and what you might be seeing is my American definition of "constitution". In the United States, the Constitution of the US is one in the same as "Governmental Structure of the US". The US constitution itself simply establishes the three branches of government, gives them powers, and establishes a system of checks and balanaces. The amendments to the US Constitution are a mixture of revisions to the body of the constitution (amendment 12 for example) as well as items of a legislative, rather than process nature (amendment 1 for example). I believe in Europe "constitution" has a broader meaning, concerning actual laws, rather than straight up process. As for your other points, I summarized History of the Constitution of the Roman Republic under Constitutional history (509-49 BC) and The transition from Republic to Empire (49-27 BC), and Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Republic under Legislative Assemblies. Conflict of the Orders, Constitutional Reforms of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Constitutional Reforms of Julius Caesar are among the topics discussed in History of the Constitution of the Roman Republic. Curiate Assembly, Century Assembly, Tribal Assembly and Plebeian Council are discussed in Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Republic. I tried to build this Roman Constitution series like a pyramid, where the higher levels (such as this article) simply summarize articles lower on the hierarchy.RomanHistorian (talk) 03:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. Using the more traditional definition of constitution as being how a government is constituted is fine with me. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:18, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - I agree with the above. This is a great example of a historic topic. Zginder 2008-12-24T16:23Z (UTC)
• Close with consensus to promote - rst20xx (talk) 16:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]