Answer:
Patricians
Explanation:
Patricians- Wealthy landowners who held most of the power. They inherited their power and social status. They claimed their ancestry gave them the authority to make laws for Rome.
They were signing a petition to establish the 'Columbia Territory'.
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
