Citizenship in the Roman Empire

All free inhabitants of the empire was citizens. This would have been a major win for the imperial coffers. It also means that roman law now applies more extensively, and it has a major impact on law throughout the empire. Now people are going to be interacting with the roman legal system a lot more,. And local laws are going to fall into abeyance, or perhaps even come into conflict with roman law. So there's something we really and in the late empire, is that the citizens are split into two groups, the onestiores, the more honourable people, who are immune from baser punishments like whipping but not immune from these baser punishments. The humili