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THE SENATE HOUSE, ROME
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"Esteemed colleagues, before we begin our debate on Senatus Consultum Junium, allow me to incorporate an amendment to the original draft that occured to me." Marcus Brutus said and read the amended proposal.

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SENATUS CONSULTUM JUNIUM OBVIAM CORRUPTIO

I. That this Senate House decrees that every Senator or Magistrate of Rome CONVICTED in a Roman court under the Roman law for the crime of ACCEPTING a bribery will be sentenced according to the severity of his crime as follows:

a) If the Senator or Magistrate is found guilty of accepting a bribe in return for a minor offence(ie. speaking in favour of the briber in Senate\Assembly, supporting the briber for a cause set as the goal of the bribery etc) will be fined three times the sum of the bribery.

b) If the Senator or Magistrate is found guilty of accepting a bribe in return for a medium offence(ie. vetoying a legislation, casting a favourable vote in either Senate, Assembly or relegious colleges, casting a favourable vote for the offerer in the elections) will be denied entrance in the Senate for the end of the year as well as fined three times the sum of the bribery.

c) If the Senator or Magistrate is found guilty of accepting a bribe in return for a serious offence or even treason against the Republic(ie. accepting a bribe to murder a Roman citizen, accepting a bribe to act against the wishes and wills of the Senate and People of Rome) will be sentenced with loss of his citizenship and exile for five years.

II. That this Senate House decrees that every Senator or Magistrate of Rome CONVICTED in a Roman court under the Roman law of the crime of GIVING a bribe will be sentenced according to the severity of his crime as follows:

a) If the Senator or Magistrate is found guilty of GIVING a bribe in return of a minor offence(ie. speaking in favour of the briber in Senate\Assembly, supporting the briber for a cause set as the goal of the bribery etc) will be fined three times the sum of the bribery and be proscribed from the list of Senators for the end of the year and the year next.

b) If the Senator or Magistrate is found guilty of GIVING a bribe in return for a medium offence(ie. vetoying a legislation, casting a favourable vote in either Senate, Assembly or relegious colleges, casting a favourable vote for the offerer in the elections) will be denied entrance in the Senate for four years as well as fined the sum of the bribery given six times.

c) If the Senator or Magistrate is found guilty of giving a bribe in return for a serious offence or even treason against the Republic(ie. accepting a bribe to murder a Roman citizen, accepting a bribe to act against the wishes and wills of the Senate and People of Rome) will be sentenced with loss of his citizenship, the public redistribution of his property and voluntary exile for life on penalty of death.

C. That this Senate House decrees that every sitting magistrate is stripped of his legal immunity and immidiately faces trial back in Rome when the said sitting magistrate is accused of accepting or giving a bribery with the intention or the acceptance to act against the interests and wishes of the Senate and People of Rome. Imperium holders are not exempt by this law.