{"id":114487,"date":"2022-11-11T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=114487"},"modified":"2022-11-11T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:58:07","slug":"lex-annalis-regulation-of-cursus-honorum","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/lex-annalis-regulation-of-cursus-honorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lex Annalis &#8211; regulation of cursus honorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lex Annalis<\/em> was the law which decisively regulated the order of office (<em>cursus honourum<\/em>) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/\">Roman Republic<\/a>. Moreover, it set the minimum age that a Roman citizen must have had to apply for a questorship. The requirement was 26 years of age and 10 years of military service. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to its provisions, a citizen starting his career as a politician had to first apply for a questorship. After two years, he had the right to apply (optional) for the edilate. Then there were the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/\">offices<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/praetor\/\">praetor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/roman-consul\/\">consul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/censor\/\">censor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, the act also regulated the issue of waiting two years (<em>biennium<\/em>) after leaving the office of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/quaestor\/\">quaestor<\/a> before running in the next elections. However, this rule did not apply to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/social-layers-of-ancient-rome\/plebeians\/\">plebeians<\/a> who could run for new offices every year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lex Annalis<\/em> was introduced by the people&#8217;s tribune Lucius Villius in 180 BCE and was an effective mechanism to limit the arbitrariness and over-ambitious new candidates for the magistracy. In this way, efforts were made to reduce the number of candidates and prevent progressive electoral corruption (<em>ambitus<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the act did its job and was rather rigorously followed until the 1st century BCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37312,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[87,112],"class_list":["post-114487","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-law","kategorie_ciekawostek-system-and-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=114487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}