nearer.

In 449 Valerius and Horatius were elected Consuls, and were
instrumental in passing the so called VALERIO-HORATIAN laws, the
substance of which was as follows:--

I. Every Roman citizen could appeal to the Comitia Centuriáta against
the sentence of any magistrate.

II. All the decisions of the Comitia Tribúta (_plebiscita_), if
sanctioned by the Senate and Comitia Centuriáta, were made binding
upon patricians and plebeians alike. This assembly now became of equal
importance with the other two.

III. The persons of the Tribunes, Aediles, and other plebeian
officers, were to be considered sacred.

IV. The Tribunes could take part in the debates of the Senate, and
veto any of its decisions.

Two years later (447), the election of the Quaestors, who must still
be patricians, was intrusted to the Comitia Tribúta. Heretofore they
had been appointed by the Consuls.

In 445 the Tribune Canuleius proposed a bill which was passed, and
called the CANULEIAN LAW, giving to the plebeians the right of
intermarriage (_connubium_) with the patricians, and enacting
that all issue of such marriages should have the rank of the father.

Canuleius also proposed another bill which he did not carry; viz. that