Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c9.s4.103
Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c9.s4.103
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c9.s4.103
There was no complete division among the legislative, executive and judicial functions within the Assembly, which is the hall-mark of modern democracies. Neither did the assembly of the early Germans have such division. It "selected" the chiefs and the generals and it tried judicial cases.⁶ No doubt the position of the Licchavian Assembly was similar. In practice all these functions would usually be carried out by this council of nine who had to answer for their actions to the Assembly.