Knowledge of Roman Society
Roman Citizenship, Laws, Justice, and Punishments
By Ismerai Morales & April Lopez
Roman Citizenship
• The Male Romans have all rights
• Women had limited rights they couldn't vote
• Slaves had almost no rights - small chances for freedom
• Freedmen were former slaves with limited rights
Laws
•Focused on:
- marriage
- inheritance - what familiy get when a member dies
- contracts bettween people
• Laws were written
Roman Justice
•Natural laws giving every citizen rights
- Connected to life, liberty, and pursuit of happines
• Justice made court decisions from trials and evidence
Punishments
• Fit the crime committed
- Fines - pays money
- beatings
- banishments - have to leave rome
- slavery
- execution
• Patricide - killing your father, was punished by being drowned in a river
• Slaves were beaten, harder work, or often crucified