Tribal Assembly
The "Tribal Assembly" ("comitia populi tributa") of the Roman Republic was the democratic assembly of Roman citizens. The Tribal Assembly was organized as an Assembly, and not as a Council. During the years of the Roman Republic, citizens were organized on the basis of thirty-five Tribes which included patricians and plebeians. The Tribes gathered into the Tribal Assembly for legislative, electoral, and judicial purposes. The president of the Tribal Assembly was usually either a "Consul" (the highest ranking Roman Magistrate) or a "Praetor" (the second-highest ranking Roman Magistrate). The Tribal Assembly elected three different magistrates: "Quaestors", "Curule Aediles", and "Military Tribunes". The Tribal Assembly also had the power to try judicial cases.