[1068] Cato, Orig. iv. 13; n. 2 above.
[1069] Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 598 f.; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 111 ff. The election of a king was a iussus populi, which was equivalent to a lex; Livy i. 22. 1. For an election by the centuriate assembly, see Livy vii. 17. 12. The lex curiata de imperio was regarded strictly as an election; p. 184 ff. On judicial decisions see Lange, ibid. i. 629 f.; ii. 571.
[1070] Cic. Div. ii. 35. 74: “Ut comitiorum vel in iudiciis populi vel in iure legum vel in creandis magistratibus”; Leg. iii. 3. 10; 15. 33. Iudicia populi practically disappeared, leaving comitia legum and comitia magistratuum; idem, Sest. 51. 109; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 326, n. 1.
[1071] The usual expression for the validity of a law is lege populus tenetur; cf. Cic. Dom. 16. 41; Phil. v. 4. 10; Gell. xv. 27. 4; Gaius i. 3. For further citations, see Rubino, Röm. Verf. 356, n. 1; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 159, n. 1, 309, n. 3.
[1072] Cf. Livy. ix. 34. 8-10.
[1073] Dig. i. 2. 2. 2.
[1074] Ascribed to Ancus Marcius by Livy (i. 32. 2) and Dionysius (iii. 36. 2 ff.), to Romulus and his successors by Pomponius (ibid.), but destroyed in the Gallic conflagration (Livy vi. 1. 1).
[1075] Lange, Röm. Alt. 1. 314 f.; Voigt, in Abhdl. d. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. vii (1879). 559; Schrader, Reallexikon, 657 f.
[1076] The sources uniformly represent the kings as acting alone in the admission of individuals and of entire communities to citizenship. The view of Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 29, that the assembly coöperated rests upon his theory of an original popular sovereignty and of an original patrician state, neither of which has any basis in fact.
[1077] Cic. Rep. v. 2. 3; Livy 1. 38. 7; 44. 3; 56. 1 f.