Civitas sine suffragio (
Latin, "citizenship without the vote") was a level of citizenship in the
Roman Republic which granted all the rights of
Roman citizenship except the right to vote in popular assemblies. This status was first extended to some of the city-states which had been incorporated into the Republic following the break-up of the
Latin League in 338 BCE.[1] It became the standard Romanization policy for incorporating conquered regions in building the
Roman Empire.[2]
^Timothy J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC), London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 349–351.
Sources
Sherwin-White, A.N. (1973), The Roman Citizenship (2nd ed.), Oxford and New York: Oxford U.P.