But to these there were necessarily attached rights of sovereignty that practically went far beyond them.
The Full Roman Franchise The relations, which the Italians sustained to the leading community, exhibited in detail great inequalities.

In this point of view, in addition to the full burgesses of Rome, there were three different classes of subjects to be distinguished.

The full franchise itself, in the first place, was extended as far as was possible, without wholly abandoning the idea of an urban commonwealth as applied to the Roman commune.

The old burgess-domain had hitherto been enlarged chiefly by individual assignation in such a way that southern Etruria as far as towards Caere and Falerii,( 25) the districts taken from the Hernici on the Sacco and on the Anio( 26) the largest part of the Sabine country( 27) and large tracts of the territory formerly Volscian, especially the Pomptine plain( 28) were converted into land for Roman farmers, and new burgess-districts were instituted mostly for their inhabitants.

The same course had even already been taken with the Falernian district on the Volturnus ceded by Capua.( 29) All these burgesses domiciled outside of Rome were without a commonwealth and an administration of their own; on the assigned territory there arose at the most market-villages (-fora et conciliabula-).