In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or were in other words "commoners". Both classes were heredit
Distributing bread to plebeians
Plebes (first-year students) marching in front of Bancroft Hall, United States Naval Academy
The constitution of the Roman Republic was a set of uncodified norms and customs which, together with various written laws, guided the procedural governance of the Roman Republic. The constitution eme
Gaius Gracchus, tribune of the people, presiding over the plebeian Council, in an artist's impression from 1799
The "Capitoline Brutus", traditionally identified as a bust of Lucius Junius Brutus (died 509 BC), who himself was identified traditionally as the founder of the republic