These upper-chamber representatives would not be directly elected by the people, but they would still be elected tribunes of the people.

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The emphasis on modern campaign politics also proves illuminating, with the rabble-rousing tribunes conspiring against Coriolanus in the Senate amid cigarette smoke and division bells.

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"Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen" ("Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes, " 1840), after a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, takes up the epic mode of French grand opera.

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Banished after a clash with the people's tribunes and a fickle mob, Coriolanus defects to the enemy camp, to his guerrilla rival, Aufidius, whom he admires, and prepares to sack Rome.

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If Washington's chest-beating pols who posture as tribunes of the people really want to help, they will allow individually owned HSAs to escape state regulations that vastly inflate medical insurance costs, just as corporate plans do today.

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