33 BC

Consul (abbrev. cos.) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. After the expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus and the ending of the Roman Kingdom, all the powers and authority of the King were given to the newly instituted Consuls. The office of Consul was believed to date back to the traditional establishment of the Republic in 509 BC, although the early history is partly legendary, and the succession of Consuls is not continuous in the 5th century. Consuls executed bot ...

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Consul - Early Republic. After the mythical expulsion of the last Etruscan King Tarquinius Superbus and the ending of the Roman Kingdom, all the powers and authority of the King were alledgedly given to the newly instituted Consulship. However, it is likely that first the chief magistrates were the Praetors. The office of Consul was believed to date back to the traditional establishment of the Republic in 509 BC but the succession of Consuls is not continuous in the 5th century. Consuls had extensive competences ...

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Consul, Consul - Roman Republic, Consul - Early Republic, Consul - Consular Dating, Consul - Late Republic and Augustus, Consul - Lists of Roman Consuls, Consul - Other uses in Antiquity, Consul - Other city states, Consul - Private sphere, Consul - In Feudal times, Consul - Modern republics, Consul - French republican consuls, Consul - Roman republican consuls, Consul - Paraguay, Consul - partitioned revolutionary Greece, Consul - Sources and References

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Consul - French republican consuls. In 1799, revolutionary France enacted a constitution that conferred supreme executive powers upon three officials that bore the title "consul" as chief magistracy of the republic. In reality, however, the state was de facto under personal control of the First Consul, general Napoleon Bonaparte, so in political terms it was more like a re-edition of J ...

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Consul, Consul - Roman Republic, Consul - Early Republic, Consul - Consular Dating, Consul - Late Republic and Augustus, Consul - Lists of Roman Consuls, Consul - Other uses in Antiquity, Consul - Other city states, Consul - Private sphere, Consul - In Feudal times, Consul - Modern republics, Consul - French republican consuls, Consul - Roman republican consuls, Consul - Paraguay, Consul - partitioned revolutionary Greece, Consul - Sources and References

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Consul - Other city states. While in many cities their was a double-headed chief magustracy, often another title was used, such as Duumvir or native styles such as Meddix, but in some Consul was used. Consul - Private sphere. It was not uncommon for various organisations under Rolan private law to copy the terminology of state and city institutions for its own statutory agents (the very founding stat ...

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Consul, Consul - Roman Republic, Consul - Early Republic, Consul - Consular Dating, Consul - Late Republic and Augustus, Consul - Lists of Roman Consuls, Consul - Other uses in Antiquity, Consul - Other city states, Consul - Private sphere, Consul - In Feudal times, Consul - Modern republics, Consul - French republican consuls, Consul - Roman republican consuls, Consul - Paraguay, Consul - partitioned revolutionary Greece, Consul - Sources and References

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