Over, for now, is the brief period when lawmakers delivered on promises to use the part of the surplus generated by Social Security for debt reduction.
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Because of the age-old tradition where clubs rent their grounds from the local municipal council, they can't use them as collateral to raise cash or as security for debts.
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Debt-bondage existed in the early Republic largely as a result of increasing control over the " ager publicus ", or public land, by individuals who acquired disproportionate wealth and power and distorted the Roman people ( " populus Romanus " ), they were unable to earn a living, and " nexum " was resorted to as security for debts.