In 448 B. C. the Plebs, for the second time, seceded to the Mons Sacer,
and the Decemviri were obliged to give way. Tribunes were re-appointed,
and the new consuls were Valerius and Horatius. By them, in the Comitia
Centuriata the great Valerian and Horatian Laws were passed, the first
great charter of Roman freedom, and the power of the Plebeians was much
increased. The Comitia Tributa was now on a level with the Comitia
Centuriata, so that a Plebis-citum, or decree of the people’s assembly,
had henceforth the same force as one passed by the Comitia Centuriata,
and became law for the whole nation. The struggle between the two
orders, Patricians and Plebeians, continued. In 445 B. C. the Lex
Canuleia, proposed by the tribune Canuleius, was passed, sanctioning
intermarriage between Patricians and Plebeians.