Talk:Centuriate assembly

"Elector" ?
Article currently uses this term more than 16 times, once in equivocation with "citizen" without explaining it in the way one might do for the same term in re the United States. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 19:58, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * In this instance the citizens are the electors. A century does not elect one representative (or more) as the US electoral college would. It dicit for one or more candidates. Ifly6 (talk) 17:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Direct democracy?
Rome was never a direct democracy. It was an aristocracy controlled by the senate and this body (the century) was aristocratic too. The article itself states this. It was a republic in name only —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.117.17.200 (talk) 22:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)


 * The standard treatment in the sources is that it had elements of direct democracy. Millar's Roman democracy and its progeny are rather clear and accepted on that aspect, even if there is disagreement as to extent. Ifly6 (talk) 17:34, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Roman Constitution Diagram
I noticed that the current version of the diagram showing the checks and balances of the Roman constitution was incomplete and not edited correctly. I think that it should be changed back to the previous version, for that version does not include the mistakes.

-LarryVlad — Preceding unsigned comment added by LarryVlad (talk • contribs) 19:02, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion - Move
The term "Century Assembly" is incorrect (if it was ever even used). "Centuriate Assembly" is the correct English term. I find no occurrence with this meaning in a Google search apart from this article, and Google n-grams show nothing either. I would move it immediately. - Eponymous-Archon (talk) 20:25, 24 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the move. That was the right thing to do. I would have put it to the Latin form myself but maybe that's too radical. The Latin form is definitely used more in the literature as the primary descriptor than "centuriate assembly" which is the English translation. Ifly6 (talk) 17:35, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Move from Century Assembly
As I noted over at the talk page for Century Assembly, the titles of the article on the Comitia Centuriata and its redirect are switched: the article itself should be "Centuriate Assembly" and the redirect "Century Assembly." Well, really there should be nothing by the latter name, since it's not at all used in English, but I would keep it around for a short period before deletion. - Eponymous-Archon (talk) 20:08, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Move of Talk Page
For some reason, the contents of the Century Assembly talk page were left behind on the redirect's talk page. I've moved them here, and blanked that talk page. P Aculeius (talk) 14:28, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Article cries out for a table or outline
The article consists of long text descriptions of the voting system, in which different classes of citizens in a hierarchy by age, wealth and family background. The best way to present such information is a Table or Outline, which graphically show objects that are equivalent in some sense (like centuries) and objects that contain other sub-objects (the officer class, the enlisted class, etc, each containing centuries). Ttulinsky (talk) 21:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm doing something of that sort at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ifly6/Centuriate_assembly#Servian_organisation. Have you any thoughts on it? (See also image at top.) Ifly6 (talk) 22:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)