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Originally, after expelling the kings, it was the top-class, the Patriarchs which took over and formed the Senate, but the lower class, the Plebs soon forced them to accept membership of their representatives - one of the two annual consuls had to be a pleb, and the consuls automatically got membership pf the senate, so the number of plebs in the Senate grew. Then the Plebs forced creation of ten Tribunes of the Plebs who attended the Senate and had veto powers, and these also became senators at the end of their term of office. So the proportion of Plebs who were senators grew even further. By the time of the civil wars, when many patricians were killed, the Patriarchs had declined so much as to no longer be a power in the Senate, and the title became an honorific.
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