Interpretationes sacerdotali tra ius publicum e ius sacrum: le procedure di nomina dei magistrati repubblicani
Priestly Interpretations Between Ius publicum and Ius sacrum: the Appointment Procedures of Republican Magistrates

Author(s): Cristiana M.A. Rinolfi
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Roman law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Источном Сарајеву
Keywords: Ius publicum; Sacerdotes populi Romani; Magistratus;
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes some episodes of ancient republican Rome in which the political institutions overcome, through the priestly action, some regulatory deficiencies in the process of crating magistrates. Among the most relevant cases, worthy of mention are the pontifical presidency of the concilia plebis, established after the disastrous fall of the legislative decemvirate, the augury responsum of 426 BC, concerning the dictio dictatoris by the tribuni militum consulari protestate, and that too o 176 BC, around to the competence of the consul suffectus to preside over the comitia consularia. With the help of the priestly support, the irregular situation was overcome, adapting the needs of the present to the juridical tradition. In these circumstances the sacerdotes populi Romani confirm themselves as the co-protagonists of an open and dynamic constitutional system, foreign to the generalizing (and distorting) schematizations of the Staatsrecht.

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