Salve Quirites,

I Stand before you in a whitened Toga and ask you to
vote for me as your Praetor.

One of the main duties of a Praetor deals with the
main list. I have raised the issuse of freedom of
Speech on this list many times. I Have called for a
strict defination of Blasphemy so that all citizens
who post here will know what is and is not permitted.
I Spent a year working behind the scenes for the
rights of citizens for whom English is second
language, and the Decuriae Interpretes is the result
of my efforts. As your Praetor I will continue to work
for the rights of citizens to post in this Forum. I
Promise you that no Magistrate or Canidate for office
will be placed on modarated status for any reason
other than conduct so reprehensible that the Senate
deems it nessacary, and I will ask the Consuls you see
fit to elect to promulgate a Lex to insure that this
remains the policy of this list after my term ends.

Praetors also need to be familar with Nova Roma's
Leges. I have often made posts regarding proposed laws
and some of these sugestions were accepted and now
part of Nov Roma's legal code. This year I have served
as Accensus to the Junior Consul, offering him advice
on the Leges he has drafted and on our Laws. I have
have been a Propraetor for the past 18 months. There
are two aspects of Nova Roman law that I find
troubling, and that I wish to address. The first is we
have no Statue of Limitations. There is nothing to
prevent a citizen with being charged for an action
commited years earlier. If you see fit to elect me I
will attempt to get the Constitution amended so that
Nova Roma's citizens are protected by a Statue of
Limitations. The second ommission is a ban on Ex Post
Facto Leges. Right now there is nothing preventing a
Lex or an Edict from making an action that was legal
when it was comitted into a crime. I Will work for an
admendment to our Constitution That bans Ex Post Facto
Laws and Edicts.


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L. Sicinius Drusus

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