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Pax Romana
The term "Pax Romana", which literally means "Roman peace," refers to the time period from 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. in the Roman Empire.
The Pax Romana began when Octavian became the leader of the Roman Empire. The main importance of his peace was that all of the land surrounding the Mediterranean was not at war because everyone was under Roman Law but also under a Roman tribute and sometimes Roman corruption and abuse.
Romans had been a Republic but had degenerated under the influence of the sloth and avarice of legal charity. The maxims of law had morphed from the original Libera res publica and a Republican Form of government into something quite different. What was the means and method that could be used to alter that nation?
This whole nation could only change by Natural Law through consent and contract.
What price
What price consent?
When asked who ruined Rome, Plutarch's answer was clear and concise:
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)[1] “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
The Roman Senate of old men, once respected, became the "Conscripti Patri" of a nation and just as the Elder Fathers of the Paterfamilias waived their rights to the Senate and its free bread, so would the Senators waived their responsibilities to to the Patronus of Rome and all his subsequent offices of power.[2]
When the Roman people judged their neighbors rights were not as valuable as their person comfort or gain their own rights were forfeited according to the maxim by what judgement you judge so shall ye be judged.
A Secret lost
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend; legend became myth."[3]
They had thrown out the throne of Tarquinian kings to form their Republic of individual responsibility which was dependent upon the people's courts, the Great Domestic Union of Husband and Wife, and the social virtues of a noble people, but were drawn back to an imposed peace through men who exercise authority one over the other. The Romans would make a record of that rejection of the liberty of choice by consent to justify their acts of tyranny of man over man, burning incense to their chosen Son of God.
The legal maxim Pacta servanda sunt became the proclamation of justificationthatstrangledtheirdeclaration of independence so that what should have been for their welfare became a snare and a trap.
In order to get to that point of power centered in the hands of the Caesars. Julius Caesar built a military empire, amassed an extreme fortune, and political influence while gaining popular support by creating the vision of a dangerous enemy to the north and the conspiring to annihilate their neighbors. Over a million celts were attacked, robbed, or enslaved. The Roman people turned a blind eye to his war crimes and abuse because showered with dainties and benefits through their public temples.
Navigating around the responsibilities that are required in a republic there was a degeneration of the character and values of the masses. These systems of free bread obtained through covetous schemes weakened the people.
- ↑ Alternate translation. "For it has been well said that he first breaks down the power of the people who first feasts and bribes them. But at Rome the mischief seems to have crept in stealthily and gradually, and not to have been noticed at once." Life of Coriolanus, Sec. 14
- ↑ Patronus, Emperator, Apotheos, [[Principas Civitas, Son of God, etc.
- ↑ Galadriel, Lord of the Rings