#CivilWar?: Labour Party also divides into the Optimates and the Populares. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins
May 22, 2021, 12:50 AM
Photo: Gaius Grac addressing the Concilium Plebis.
Optimates and Populares (Latin: respectively, “Best Ones,” or “Aristocrats”, and “Demagogues,” or “Populists”), two principal patrician political groups during the later Roman Republic from about 133 to 27 BC. The members of both groups belonged to the wealthier classes. The Senate’s authority was based on custom and consent rather than upon law. It had no legal control over the people or magistrates: it gave, but could not enforce, advice.
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#CivilWar?: Labour Party also divides into the Optimates and the Populares. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins
https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/05/15/the-labour-party-is-being-pulled-apart-by-its-two-main-constituencies
Optimates and Populares (Latin: respectively, “Best Ones,” or “Aristocrats”, and “Demagogues,” or “Populists”), two principal patrician political groups during the later Roman Republic from about 133 to 27 BC. The members of both groups belonged to the wealthier classes. The Senate’s authority was based on custom and consent rather than upon law. It had no legal control over the people or magistrates: it gave, but could not enforce, advice.
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#CivilWar?: Labour Party also divides into the Optimates and the Populares. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins
https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/05/15/the-labour-party-is-being-pulled-apart-by-its-two-main-constituencies