WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -When the Republic began, the Senate functioned as an advisory council. It consisted of 300–500 senators who served for life. Only patricians were members in the early period, but plebeians were also admitted before long, although they were denied the senior magistracies for a longer period.

Detailed explanation-2: -A group of 300 patricians made up early Rome’s Senate, or group of representatives that helped run the government. Membership was for life, and the Senate had the power to pass laws. Rome also had a council made up of plebeians. This assembly eventually gained the power to pass laws for all of Rome as well.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Senate was the governing and advisory assembly of the aristocracy in the ancient Roman Republic. It was not an elected body, but one whose members were appointed by the consuls, and later by the censors.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the early history of Rome, only men from the patrician class could become senators. Later, men from the common class, or plebeians, could also become a senator. Senators were men who had previously been an elected official (called a magistrate).

Detailed explanation-5: -The word “patrician” comes from the Latin “patres”, meaning “fathers”, and these families provided the empire’s political, religious, and military leadership. Most patricians were wealthy landowners from old families, but the class was open to a chosen few who had been deliberately promoted by the emperor.