consulship
Highest elected position
Consulship is the office or position of consul, or the period during which someone holds that office.
In ancient Rome, the consulship was the highest elected political office, held jointly by two consuls for one-year terms: Caesar held the consulship in 59 BC.
In modern usage, consulship refers to diplomatic posts representing one country's interests in another's cities.
Italy's capital city
- senateLegislative governing body
- tribuneSpeaker's raised platform
- praetorRoman judicial magistrate
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
plebeian · imperium · fasces · magistrate · censor · dictator · optimates · populares
Fixed period or word
- officeProfessional work location
- yearTwelve-month duration
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
succession · predecessor · colleague · joint · annual · duration · election · assumption
Absolute ruling power
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
administration · governance · executive · sovereignty · military · civil · supreme · dual
Official foreign representative
- embassyOfficial diplomatic residence abroad
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
delegation · attaché · diplomat · credentials · posting · appointment · residence · mission
Rome
Italy's capital city
patrician · plebeian · imperium · fasces · magistrate · censor · dictator · optimates · populares · toga
term
Fixed period or word
- officeProfessional work location
- yearTwelve-month duration
- appointmentScheduled time for something
inauguration · succession · predecessor · colleague · joint · annual · duration · election · assumption · expiration
imperium
Absolute ruling power
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
veto · administration · governance · executive · sovereignty · military · civil · supreme · dual · shared
ambassador
Official foreign representative
- embassyOfficial diplomatic residence abroad
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- treatyBinding pact between nations
protocol · delegation · attaché · diplomat · credentials · posting · appointment · residence · mission · jurisdiction
- Roman Politicssenate, praetor, tribune, Roman Senate, censor
- Roman RepublicRoman Republic, veto power, senator, sacrosanctity, tribune
- Catilinarian OrationsCicero, conspiracy, oration, Roman Senate, treason
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- Roman EmpireAugustus, emperors, Roman Empire, Roman emperors, imperial
consulshipdictatorship
Unchecked single-ruler government
tyranny · autocracy · despotism · absolute rule · one-man rule
consulshipslavery
Ownership of people
subjection · servitude · powerlessness · subjugation · private life