The oldest constitution of the communities must in its general outlines have resembled that of Rome.

Kings or Lucumones ruled, possessing similar insignia and probably therefore a similar plenitude of power with the Roman kings.

A strict line of demarcation separated the nobles from the common people.

The resemblance in the clan-organization is attested by the analogy of the system of names; only, among the Etruscans, descent on the mother's side received much more consideration than in Roman law.
The constitution of their league appears to have been very lax.

It did not embrace the whole nation; the northern and the Campanian Etruscans were associated in confederacies of their own, just in the same way as the communities of Etruria proper.