here the Senate shall propose to the people, and dismiss them
without suffering them to debate." The oboe were lineages into which
every tribe was divided, and in each tribe there was another division
containing all those of the same that were of military age, which being
called the mora, was subdivided into troops and companies that were kept
in perpetual discipline under the command of a magistrate called the
polemarch.

The third is taken out of the Commonwealth of Rome, or those parts of
it which are comprised in the first and second books of Livy, where the
people, according to the institution by Romulus, are first divided into
thirty curias or parishes, whereof he elected, by three out of each
curia, the Senate, which, from his reign to that or Servius Tullius,
proposed to the parishes or parochial congregations; and these
being called the Comitia curiata, had the election of the kings,
the confirmation of their laws, and the last appeal in matters of
judicature, as appears in the case of Horatius that killed his sister;
till, in the reign of Servius (for the other kings kept not to the
institution of Romulus), the people being grown somewhat, the power
of the Curiata was for the greater part translated to the Centuriata
comitia instituted by this King, which distributed the people, according
to the sense of valuation of their estates, into six classes, every one
containing about forty centuries, divided into youth and elders; the
youth for field-service, the elders for the defence of their territory,
all armed and under continual discipline, in which they assembled both
upon military and civil occasions. But when the Senate proposed to the
people, the horse only, whereof there were twelve centuries, consisting
of the richest sort over and above those of the foot enumerated, were
called with the first classes of the foot to the suffrage; or if these
accorded not, then the second classes were called to them, but seldom or
never any of the rest. Wherefore the people, after the expulsion of the
kings, growing impatient of this inequality, rested not till they had
reduced the suffrage as it had been in the Comitia curiato to the
whole people again; but in another way, that is to say, by the Comitia
tributa, which thereupon were instituted, being a council where the
people in exigencies made laws without the Senate, which laws were
called plebiscita. This Council is that in regard whereof Cicero and
other great wits so