3.1.5 to 3.1.7

Again, it is the people who bestow office on the deserving, which are the most honourable rewards of virtue. It has also the absolute power of passing or repealing laws; and most important of all, it is the people who deliberate on the question of peace or war. And when provisional terms are made for alliance, suspension of hostilities, or treaties, it is the people who ratify them or the reverse. These considerations again would lead one to say that the chief power in the state was the people's, and that the constitution was a democracy. Such, then, is the distribution of power between the several parts of the state. Roman Law Homepage Rome Law Texts