election-districts

Updated: July 8, 2025

Moreover the government whether from want of judgment, from negligence, or from any evil design, we cannot tell no longer as formerly enrolled the communities admitted to the franchise after 513 in newly instituted election-districts, but included them along with others in the old; so that gradually each tribe came to be composed of different townships scattered over the whole Roman territory.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Moreover the government whether from want of judgment, from negligence, or from any evil design, we cannot tell no longer as formerly enrolled the communities admitted to the franchise after 513 in newly instituted election-districts, but included them along with others in the old; so that gradually each tribe came to be composed of different townships scattered over the whole Roman territory.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Election-districts such as these, containing on an average 8000 the urban naturally having more, the rural fewer persons entitled to vote, without local connection or inward unity, no longer admitted of any definite leading or of any satisfactory previous deliberation; disadvantages which must have been the more felt, since the voting itself was not preceded by any free debate.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Election-districts such as these, containing on an average 8000 the urban naturally having more, the rural fewer persons entitled to vote, without local connection or inward unity, no longer admitted of any definite leading or of any satisfactory previous deliberation; disadvantages which must have been the more felt, since the voting itself was not preceded by any free debate.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States