Antoninus Caracalla
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in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor credited with the universal grant of citizenship to free subjects of the empire.
212-217, after raising from one-twentieth to one-tenth the tax on manumissions and the testamentary succession and legacy duty, which was only levied on Roman citizens, exhausted for a time this source of revenue by conferring at a stroke Roman citizenship on every free subject of the empire:
Ancient Law
Roman emperor whose grant of universal citizenship enlarged the sphere of Patria Potestas.
It does not fall within the province of this treatise to examine the mechanism of the later Roman society, but I may be permitted to remark that there is little foundation for the opinion which represents the constitution of Antoninus Caracalla conferring Roman citizenship on the whole of his subjects as a measure of small importance.