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The senators were members of the aristocracy and the wealthy entrepreneurial elites. Therefore, they were treated with the respect due to the top layers of society. There were, however, times of conflict with the senators. One of these was by rich plebeians during the Conflict of the Orders (between patricians and plebeians) of the early Republic in which the rich plebeians fought to gain access to the senate and the consulship (the office of heads of the Republic) which were monopolised by the patrician aristocracy. They eventually succeeded in gaining power-sharing Poor plebeians were often in conflict with the senators through most of the republican period. Poor plebeians often fought for reforms which would relieve the poor and which were opposed by the senators. After the Republic these was at times conflict between the emperor and the senator.

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