In 174 we hear of its walls being repaired by the censors.
The censors, being elected on a general ticket, were always more progressive than the convention, which was chosen on the principle of equal township representation.
Propositions to establish the judiciary on a more permanent tenure were also voted down in 1814, 1822, 1857 and 1870, and the state still elects its judges for two years' terms. On its own suggestion, the council of censors was abolished in 1870 and the present method of amending the constitution was adopted.
The pope appointed censors for both translations, who found the work to be replete with piety and holiness, highly useful and wholesome.
The equites were originally chosen by the curiae, then in succession by the kings, the consuls, and (after 443 B.C.) by the censors, by whom they were reviewed every five years in the Forum.
