The principatus, like the extraordinary magistracies, was, with no doubts, constitu-tionally admissible without being constitutionally necessary. Therefore we can't de-fine it as a legal order belonging to the emperor alone. In effect, it dies with each prince, to be reborn always new with his successor. This new constitutional regime had to regenerate regularly in republican institutions. According to Mommsen, the adclamatio of every new emperor always has a 'revolutionary' value, but it must in any case be legitimized by the decrees of the senate and by the investiture leges voted by the comitia.

La ‘rivoluzione giuridicamente permanente’. A proposito di una famosa formula mommseniana

Valerio Marotta
2018-01-01

Abstract

The principatus, like the extraordinary magistracies, was, with no doubts, constitu-tionally admissible without being constitutionally necessary. Therefore we can't de-fine it as a legal order belonging to the emperor alone. In effect, it dies with each prince, to be reborn always new with his successor. This new constitutional regime had to regenerate regularly in republican institutions. According to Mommsen, the adclamatio of every new emperor always has a 'revolutionary' value, but it must in any case be legitimized by the decrees of the senate and by the investiture leges voted by the comitia.
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