148001 20260112133145.0 doi 10.13135/2280-8574/11105 sideral 141572 ART-2024-141572 eng Martínez de Morentin Llamas, María Lourdes Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5793-3587 The defensor civitatis for the Protection of Vulnerable People. From Rome to the Present Day 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article considers the Roman defensor civitatis, which has been seen as an ancient precedent for the ombudsman for the people. Similar to the current ombudsman, he protected the most vulnerable people. This figure, since the beginning of the Ombudsman in the Swedish Constitution of 1809, has spread in States with a social and democratic conscience and is present in all areas of social life. Its creation has been one of the great advances of the Rule of Law from the point of view of guaranteeing fundamental rights, since it carries out invaluable work in the protection of citizens, often harmed and powerless in the face of decisions of the public Administration. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-sa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es 0.108 2024 Philosophy 2024 Q4 0.3 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 4004 180 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Derecho Privado Área Derecho Romano 13, 26 (2024), 1-18 J. Interdisciplinary History Ideas Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 2280-8574 1451791 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148001/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 373954 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148001/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:148001 articulos driver 2026-01-12-12:36:29 ARTICLE