Tribunicia potestas

Tribunicia potestas can be literally translated as the office of tribune of power and was claimed by Roman emperors which included the "lex sacrata" or sacred law, which gave the office a religious connotations. They eventually the Tribunicia potestas could be confirmed for life.

This assumption of tribunician power, alongside enhanced imperium, established the legal basis of early Roman emperors and there principate^[1] for at least the three centuries. Because of these offices of power the Caesars would be the Genius that guided the empire and maintained the viability of their system not just the military and civil affairs. That power would be maintained by force and fear and demanded fealty.

Augustus Caesar originally called himself Divi filius that Latin phrase meaning literally "Son of the divine".

Dei filius^[2] can be translated "Son of a God".

By declaring Caesar to be the Son of God society and even the courts would make even speaking against the Genius of Caesar becomes a violation of the "lex sacrata". ^[3]

“Sacred laws are laws which have the sanction that anyone who broke them becomes accursed("sacer") to one of the gods, together with his family and property”.^[4]

Religion was not just what people think (supersticio) about a supreme being but it was also the performance a pious duty (threskia) to higher paternal origin or genius who we pray has the character of the creator and his Law of Nature.

Private religion is a way to performing that duty.

Public religion in Rome as the Tribunicia potestas functioned which included a vast system of welfare which provided free bread through the government temples which had become an essential element of Roman society at that time.

As an office it was usually listed after the office of pontifex maximus and before the office of imperator or consul.

Tribunes were popular among the masses because they were to defend and support the plebs, which essentially formed a “state within a state” in the Roman Polis.

How it came to be

We know the Masses degenerate if the people become accustomed to covetous practices and justify those practices themselves within their societal culture.

If they neglect the the daily sacrifice required to maintain the social bonds of a free society through the perfect law of liberty you will become weak and afraid. The fear that results may draw you away from that which makes your free and bring you back into the bondage of Egypt.

If you create offices of power those who seek power will seek those offices. If you create offices of service only men who seek service will seek those offices.

Julius Caesar sought power.

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Footnotes

↑ Principate the rule of the early Roman emperors, during which some features of republican government were retained.
↑ Dei Filius is the incipit of the dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Catholic faith, which was adopted unanimously, and issued by Pope Pius IX on 24 April 1870.
↑ The Statutory declaration of "sacer esto" meant "Let him be accursed". This statute allowed anyone who was accursed could be harmed or even "killed" and it was considered as performing a sacred duty with impunity.
↑ Sextus Pompeius Festus a Roman grammarian.

[1] Principate the rule of the early Roman emperors, during which some features of republican government were retained.

[2] Dei Filius is the incipit of the dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Catholic faith, which was adopted unanimously, and issued by Pope Pius IX on 24 April 1870.

[3] The Statutory declaration of "sacer esto" meant "Let him be accursed". This statute allowed anyone who was accursed could be harmed or even "killed" and it was considered as performing a sacred duty with impunity.

[4] Sextus Pompeius Festus a Roman grammarian.

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