11 Facts About Roman Senate

Roman Senate was a governing and advisory assembly in ancient Rome.

Since the transition from monarchy to constitutional rule was most likely gradual, it took several generations before the Roman Senate was able to assert itself over the executive magistrates.

The Eastern Roman Senate survived in Constantinople through the 14th century.

The Roman Senate was not the ancestor or predecessor of modern parliamentarism in any sense, because the Roman senate was not a legislative body.

Early Roman Senate family was called a gens or "clan", and each clan was an aggregation of families under a common living male patriarch, called a pater .

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Roman Senate is said to have been created by Rome's first king, Romulus, initially consisting of 100 men.

Senate of the Roman Kingdom held three principal responsibilities: It functioned as the ultimate repository for the executive power, it served as the king's council, and it functioned as a legislative body in concert with the people of Rome.

Senate of the Roman Republic passed decrees called senatus consulta, which in form constituted "advice" from the senate to a magistrate.

Roman Senate retained the power to try treason cases, and to elect some magistrates, but only with the permission of the emperor.

Roman Senate continued to exist in Constantinople, although it evolved into an institution that differed in some fundamental forms from its predecessor.

At its height during the 6th and 7th centuries, the Roman Senate represented the collective wealth and power of the Empire, on occasion nominating and dominating individual emperors.