They were created in the same year as the Tribunes of the People ( 494 BC ).

The Plebeian Tribunes were the only magistrates independent of the Dictator, and so with his protection, Minucius was relatively safe.

Tribunes of the Plebs were meant to be untouchable and their veto inalienable according to the Roman mos maiorum ( although there was a grey line as to what extent this existed in the declaration of and during martial law ).

Tribunes were required to be plebeians, and until 421 BC this was the only office open to them.

Both were replaced by Jane Hirt, who previously had been the editor of the Tribunes RedEye tabloid.

These actions violated Octavius ' right of sacrosanctity and worried Tiberius ' supporters, and so instead of moving to depose him, Tiberius commenced to use his veto on daily ceremonial rites in which Tribunes were asked if they would allow for key public buildings, for example the markets and the temples, to be opened.

Consequently, the Tribunes Marcus Fundanius and Lucius Valerius thought it was time to propose the abolition of the Oppian law ; but they were opposed by their colleagues, Tribunes Marcus Junius Brutus and Titus Junius Brutus.

Tribunes were legally immune to arrest or threat, and the lives and property of those who violated this law were forfeit to Ceres.

The Senate then voted that Julius Caesar ( still in Gaul ) be removed from power in favor of Pompey, but the Tribunes were able to block this decree.

* Tribounos – translation of Latin tribune ; responsible for maintenance of roads, monuments, and buildings in Constantinople ( which were the responsibility of the Aedile, not the Tribunes in earlier Latin speaking times.

H. Allen Smith's first humor book, Low Man on a Totem Pole ( 1941 ) and his two following books were so popular during World War II that they kept Smith on the New York Herald Tribunes Best Seller List for 100 weeks and prompted a collection of all three in 3 Smiths in the Wind ( 1946 ).

The Tribunes were given two assistants, called Plebeian Aediles ( aediles plebi ).

Neither Tribunes nor Aediles were technically magistrates, since they were both elected solely by the Plebeians, rather than by both the Plebeians and the Patricians.

These individuals, the so-called Consular Tribunes (" Military Tribunes with Consular powers " or tribuni militares consulari potestate ) were elected by the Century Assembly ( the assembly of soldiers ), and the senate had the power to veto any such election.

Before these laws were passed, Tribunes could only interpose the sacrosanctity of their person ( intercessio ) to veto acts of the senate, assemblies, or magistrates.

As the Tribunes and the senators grew closer, Plebeian senators were often able to secure the Tribunate for members of their own families.

However, Pompey and Crassus publicly supported Caesar ’ s bill, and the opposition to Bibulus was such, especially after he told the voters that he did not care about what they wanted that his Tribunes were unwilling to veto the bill.

The regimental commanders, the Tribunes, were already converging on the Praetorium.

The line Tribunes were commanders of Cohortes and were approximately the equivalent of colonels.

Tribunes were elected by open ballot and, thus, this limited measure of democracy was corrupted by vote buying.

The International Herald Tribunes Mike Zwerin noted the band's style of having " four lead singers, four potential front men "— Imaginates strength was in their collective sound, argued Zwerin.

Tribunes could also be appointed by the consuls or by military commanders in the field as necessary.

This was followed by The Pilgrims of the Rhine ( 1834 ), The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1834 ), Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes ( 1835 ), and Harold, the Last of the Saxons ( 1848 ).

The Tribunes June 7, 1942, front page announcement that America had broken Japan's naval code was actually the potential revelation of a closely guarded military secret by the paper.

In 1994, reporter Brenda You was fired by the Tribune after free-lancing for supermarket tabloid newspapers and lending them photographs from the Tribunes photo library.

The first wind of adversity was blown by the Tampa Tribunes exposé of gambling in Fort Walton.

The latter, however, was essentially divided into the aristocratic Senate, whose will was executed by the consuls and praetors, and the comitia centuriāta, " committee of the centuries ", whose will came to be safeguarded by the Tribunes.

He was imprisoned by the Tribunes for attempting to enforce a troop levy too harshly.

Tribune also launched daily newspapers targeting urban commuters, including the Chicago Tribunes RedEye edition in 2002, followed by an investment in AM New York one year later.

However, the Patricio-Plebeian aristocracy in the senate still retained other means by which to control the Plebeian Council, in particular the closeness between the Plebeian Tribunes and the senators.

The Plebeians, by now exhausted and bitter, demanded real concessions, so the Tribunes C. Licinius Stolo and L. Sextius passed a law in 367 BC ( the " Licinio-Sextian law "), which dealt with the economic plight of the Plebeians.

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( WWV 49 ) ( Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes ) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name ( 1835 ).

It was the enthusiasm of Colts fans in particular that led to the stadium being dubbed " The World's Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum " by Cooper Rollow, the Chicago Tribunes head NFL writer at the time.

The trademark name is now owned by the Tribunes old rival, the Winnipeg Free Press.

After successfully delaying the passage of the bill in the Senate, Caesar was forced to take the bill to the Century Assembly, where Bibulus was able to secure the support of three Plebeian Tribunes in order to block the passage of the bill.

They wished to limit the power of the popular assemblies and the Tribunes of the Plebs, and to extend the power of the Senate, which was viewed as more dedicated to the interests of the aristocrats who held the reins of power.

These Tribunes had the power to veto the laws of the Senate.

One of the Plebeian Tribunes ( chief representatives of the people ) for the year, Metilius, was a partisan of Minucius, and as such he sought to use his power to help Minucius.

By this, Plutarch probably means that as Plebeian Tribune, Metilius had the Plebeian Council, a popular assembly which only Tribunes could preside over, grant Minucius quasi-dictatorial powers.

* Tribuni angusticlavii, Narrow Band Tribunes: Each legion had five more junior tribunes.

Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the right to propose legislation before it.

By extension from the Roman historical experience, some modern politicians have been called " Tribunes of the People.

" The analogy is mostly with the original function of the Tribunes as champions of the downtrodden and disadvantaged in Roman society, rather than with the later technical Roman governmental usage giving legitimacy to Imperial power.

Tribunes could use their sacrosanctity to order the use of capital punishment against any person who interfered with their duties.

Tribunes could also use their sacrosanctity as protection when physically manhandling an individual, such as when arresting someone.

Tribunes, the only true representatives of the people, had the authority to enforce the right of provoco ad populum, which was a theoretical guarantee of due process, and a precursor to the common law concept of habeas corpus.

Sometimes the tribune brought the case before the College of Tribunes or the Plebeian Council for a trial.

Several years later, researchers discovered that the editorial in question was missing, apparently having been removed from the Tribunes archives, as well as the ' Oklahoma Edition ' of the Tribune in the state archives.

Thomas J. Beall, one of the first three white settlers in Lewiston, wrote many of the Lewiston Tribunes first articles, and continued to do so until his death at the age of 89.

The Tribunes chief adversary through this period was the Chicago Times, which supported the Democrats.

This story was circulating in Chicago even before the flames had died out, and it was noted in the Chicago Tribunes first post-fire issue.

After Valentino challenged the Tribunes anonymous writer to a boxing match, the New York Evening Journal boxing writer, Frank O ' Neill, volunteered to fight in his place.

The Chicago Tribunes Russell MacFall wrote that Baum explained the purpose of his novels in a note he penned to his sister, Mary Louise Brewster, in a copy of Mother Goose in Prose ( 1897 ), his first book.

To end the succession, the plebeians gain acceptance from the patricians that they may choose two leaders to whom they give the title of Tribunes.

* Senators, Tribunes, Soldiers, Plebians, Goths etc.

In 1969, under the leadership of publisher Harold Grumhaus and editor Clayton Kirkpatrick ( 1915 – 2004 ), the Tribunes past conservative partisanship became history.

In 1986, the Tribune announced that celebrated film critic Gene Siskel, the Tribunes best-known writer, was no longer the paper's film critic, and that his position with the paper had shifted from being that of a full-time film critic to that of a free-lance contract writer who was to write about the film industry for the Sunday paper and also provide capsule film reviews for the paper's entertainment sections.