There already existed a halfway house towards the Roman citizenship known as the Latin Right. This right was originally given to the peoples of Latium to compensate for the dissolution of the Latin League in 338 BC. It allowed Latins the same mutual privileges as they had enjoyed under the league – that is commercium, connubium and the ius migrationis. This meant that anyone with Latin rights could make a legal contract with someone else possessing such rights, could legally marry such a person, and could move to another Latin city and obtain citizenship thereof. The Latin Right had been
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