Could a photograph be considered a primary source? why or why not?

Of course it can. Photographs can illustrate past events as they happened and people as they were at a particular time.  

It indeed, no doubt can.

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.