sacrosanctity

His sacrosanctity also gave him the authority to order the use of capital punishment against any individual.

Instead, they relied on the sacrosanctity of their person to obstruct.

The sacrosanctity of the ur-text is a much more recent invention.

This was not the first time that Caesar had violated a tribune's sacrosanctity.

All other powers of the tribunate derived from this sacrosanctity.

There is, for instance, the issue of the sacrosanctity of a work of art.

Well aware of their sacrosanctity, the ibises exploited it shamelessly.

Sacrosanctity was a right of tribunes in Ancient Rome not to be harmed physically.

Any resistance against the tribune was tantamount to a violation of his sacrosanctity, and thus was considered a capital offense.

Tribunes could use their sacrosanctity to order the use of capital punishment against any person who interfered with their duties.

The Tribunes' powers were based on the sacrosanctity of his person, which prevented him being arrested and made phyically injured to him a capital offense.

Tribunes could also use their sacrosanctity as protection when physically manhandling an individual, such as when arresting someone.

This endowed the emperor with inviolability (sacrosanctity) of his person, and the ability to pardon any civilian for any act, criminal or otherwise.

Their sacrosanctity was enforced by a pledge, taken by the plebeians, to kill any person who harmed or interfered with a tribune during his term of office.

The sacrosanctity of a tribune (and thus all of his legal powers) were only in effect so long as that tribune was within the city of Rome.

Before these laws were passed, Tribunes could only interpose the sacrosanctity of their person (intercessio) to veto acts of the senate, assemblies, or magistrates.

Since plebeian tribunes (as well as plebeian aediles) were technically not magistrates, they relied on the sacrosanctity of their person to obstruct.

Due to their unique power of sacrosanctity, the Tribune had no need for lictors for protection and owned no imperium, nor could they wear the toga praetexta.

If the Senate did not comply, he could physically prevent the Senate from acting, and any resistance could be criminally prosecuted as constituting a violation of his sacrosanctity.

If one did not comply with the orders of a Plebeian Tribune, the tribune could 'interpose the sacrosanctity of his person (intercessio) to physically stop that particular action.

One obvious consequence of this sacrosanctity was the fact that it was considered a capital offense to harm a tribune, to disregard his veto, or to interfere with a tribune.

It endowed both women with sacrosanctity and inviolability; they could walk anywhere without threat, as no man, be he the lowest and most predatory, would dare to touch a Vestal Virgin.

Augustus gathered almost all the republican powers under his official title, princeps: he had powers of consul, princeps senatus, aedile, censor and tribune - including tribunician sacrosanctity.

The term comes from the phrase sacer esto ("let him be accursed") and reflects that violation of a tribune's sacrosanctity was not only a secular offense, but a religious offense as well.

Nozick suggested, as a critique of Rawls and utilitarianism, that the sacrosanctity of life made property rights non-negotiable, such that an individual's personal liberty made state policies of redistribution illegitimate.