Lutatius did not have the authority to ratify the agreement he made with Hamilcar, so he forwarded them to the Comitia Centuriata in Rome.

Their administration of justice was exemplary and they submitted to the Comitia Centuriata a code of laws in ten headings, which was passed.

The Comitia Centuriata, one of the Roman assemblies, consisting of centuriae ( voting units, but originally military formations within the legions ), was required to meet on the Campus Martius outside the pomerium.

Uncertainty continues over several corruptions in the text that affect key data, such as the structure and size of the Comitia Centuriata in early Rome as described by Scipio in Book II.

After 287 BC, the Comitia Centuriata falls into the background and the tribunes, working with the Senate, make the Lex Hortensia a stage in the development of Senatorial domination in the State.

Consuls were elected by the Comitia Centuriata, which had an aristocratic bias in its voting structure which only increased over the years from its foundation.

If a consul died during his term ( not uncommon when consuls were in the forefront of battle ) or was removed from office, another would be elected by the Comitia Centuriata to serve the remainder of the term as consul suffectus, or suffect consul.

Throughout the early years of the Principate although the Consuls were still formally elected by the Comitia Centuriata, they were in fact nominated by the princeps.

As the years progressed, the distinction between the Comitia Centuriata and the Comitia Tributa ( which elected the lower magisterial positions ) appears to have disappeared, and so for the purposes of the consular elections, there came to be just a single " an assembly of the people " which elected all the magisterial positions of the state, while the consuls continued to be nominated by the princeps.

Upon entering the Comitia Centuriata, the lictors would lower the fasces to show that the powers of the consuls derive from the people ( populus romanus ).

The thirty curiae gathered into a legislative assembly known as the Comitia Curiata or Curiate Assembly.

The days when the mundus was open are identified in the oldest Roman calendar as C ( omitiales ) ( days when the Comitia met ) but by later authors as dies religiosus, when it would be irreligious to perform any official work: this apparent contradiction has led to the suggestion that the whole mundus ritual was not contemporary with Rome's early calendar or early Cerean cult, but was a later Greek import.

Lictors were associated with Comitia Curiata and probably originally one was selected from each curia, since originally there were 30 curiae and 30 lictors ( 24 for two consuls and 6 for the sole praetor )

The interrex's function was to call a meeting of the Comitia Curiata which would elect a new king.

When a vacancy occurred, three persons of patrician descent, whose parents had been married according to the ceremonies of confarreatio ( the strictest form of Roman marriage ), were nominated by the Comitia, one of whom was selected ( captus ), and consecrated ( inaugurabatur ) by the Pontifex Maximus.

The rex held no civic or military role, but nevertheless was bound to offer a public sacrifice in the Comitia on this date.

Romulus divides each tribe into ten curiae to form the Comitia Curiata.

The curiae formed the voting units in the Comitia Curiata.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

However, the Hamas legislative victory led to a split between the two main Palestinian political parties, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.

The Authority's main legislative accomplishment to date has been the adoption, in the year 2000, of regulations governing exploration for polymetallic nodules.

They also supplemented the legislative councils, formed of noblemen, with new People's Councils, composed by the main guilds and by the chiefs of the People's Companies.

# The Senate is the main governing and legislative body that meets in a large chamber in the capital city on Romulus.

The Romulan government consists of several parts: the Romulan Senate, the main governing and legislative body in a large chamber on Romulus.

While the Assembly was in suspension, due to issues involving the main parties and the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), its legislative powers were exercised by the UK government, which effectively had power to legislate by decree.

In 1999 a working group of leading LP activists proposed to reformat and retire the platform to serve as a guide for legislative projects ( its main purpose to that point ) and create a series of custom platforms on current issues for different purposes, including the needs of the growing number of Libertarians in office.

As the chief administrative organ of government, its main functions are to formulate administrative measures, issue decisions and orders, and monitor their implementation ; draft legislative bills for submission to the NPC or its Standing Committee ; and prepare the economic plan and the state budget for deliberation and approval by the NPC.

The main body of the legislative branch is Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, which enacts federal legislation, including the budget.

The Constitution of Bhutan provides for a government consisting of three main branches – executive, legislative, and judicial – plus the officially apolitical Dratshang Lhentshog ( Monastic Affairs Commission ) of the Drukpa Kagyu state religion.

The APRC maintained its strong majority in the National Assembly in legislative elections held in January 2002, particularly after the main opposition United Democratic Party ( UDP ) boycotted the legislative elections. Monument over the 1994 coup

The Board of Finance approves financial measures, including the town budget ; the Board of Education controls the town's public schools ; the Representative Town Meeting is the main legislative body of the town.

Each province is governed by two main elected branches of the government: executive and legislative.

Uno's main action as prime minister was to institute the country's first consumption tax, which immediately caused an uproar among many voters and led to the Japan Socialist Party's victory in the Tokyo metropolitan legislative election of 1989.

On 3 August 2001, the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba ( the main legislative body of the Republic of Cuba ) issued a statement referring to Operation Northwoods and Operation Mongoose wherein it condemned such U. S. government plans.

Notwithstanding, the Nationalist Party survived and in its first major electoral test, the legislative elections of 1947, it managed to stay ahead of various splinters that had formed from people who did not want to be associated with the main party.

The Massachusetts General Court ( the main elected legislative and judicial body in Massachusetts ) was brought under nominal British government control, but all members except the Royal Governor and a few of his deputies continued to be elected in the various towns, as was their practice over the prior 40 years.

The most famous of these were the Rywin affair ( an alleged attempt to interfere with the legislative process, so named after the main suspect Lew Rywin ) -- this case was investigated by a special parliamentary committee, whose proceedings were televised and widely followed ), and the Starachowice affair ( government ministers informed friends with links to organized crime about an impending raid ).

Whether the Sénat was part of legislature, however, is open to doubt, because Sieyès ( the main instigator of the Consulate's Constitution and later president of this Senate ) described it as belonging to an altogether different power beyond the executive, legislative and judiciary: the conservative power.

The opposition, backed by international observers, declared the legislative elections highly flawed, and based on their perception of misconduct, the main opposition parties boycotted the presidential elections of October later that year.

The main function of the Court is to decide on the conformity of laws and other regulation with the Constitution, to decide on jurisdictional disputes between the legislative, executive and judicial branches, to decide on the impeachment of the president of the republic, to supervise and ban political parties and to supervise the constitutionality and legality of elections and national referendums.

The main leader of the radical tendency was T. Nagi Reddy, a member of the state legislative assembly.