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tribunate

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trib·u·nate  (trby-nt, tr-bynt)
n.
The rank, office, dignity, or authority of a tribune.

tribunate [ˈtrɪbjʊnɪt], tribuneship
n
(Historical Terms) the office or rank of a tribune


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In both this play and Coriolanus, Shakespeare examines the tribunate as the advent of political representationalism only to show how it is ineffective.
From 1800, when she encouraged Benjamin Constant to stand up for free speech in the Tribunate, and was ostracized for her pains, she kept to her principles in mingled pride and dread.
 
 
 
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