Citizenship Wasn’t Sacred: How Rome Used Rights to Control Loyalty
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Today, citizenship is treated as identity.
In Rome, it was policy.
This video examines how the Roman Empire used citizenship as a flexible instrument of control granting, restricting and diluting rights not to express values, but to stabilize power.
Citizenship provided legal protection, access to courts, and insulation from arbitrary coercion. Because rights constrained authority, Rome limited citizenship when control was fragile and expanded it when loyalty, manpower or taxation were needed.
From selective grants to allied elites, to mass expansion under Caracalla, Roman citizenship was adjusted whenever the system faced pressure.
The mechanism is uncomfortable but durable:
rights expand to bind contributors, restrict to manage risk and dilute to reduce complexity.
Citizenship survived in Rome precisely because it was never sacred.
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