![]() That made the Senate viable but bred corruption since unseated Senators traded most of their votes. Īfter the First Alsakan Conflict in 17,000 BBY, the Senate was composed of seated Senators with full rights of address, and unseated Senators, who had to petition for such rights. Then the Republic was politically divided into sectors containing up to 50 inhabited systems, small enough so that they wouldn't expand into separatist empires the Senate then was apartised by sectorial Senators, representing the planetary Senators. Originally the Senate was Planetary and welcomed any planet with a large enough population until the Core was occupied by the early Republic. ![]() One of the privileges a Supreme Chancellor still possessed was his or her ability to call an Extraordinary Session. Following the Ruusan Reformation, a large amount of power was removed from the Supreme Chancellor and granted to the Senate, which although resulting in greater regional involvement in galactic politics, also resulted in increased gridlock and corruption. It was still a relatively weak body at the end of the Old Sith Wars. The Galactic Constitution invested the Senate with the power to regulate trade, maintain maps of the galaxy's hyperspace routes, and to maintain the Republic's military. The Galactic Senate was a place where all the Republic's elected and appointed senators and representatives from the farthest reaches of the galaxy would discuss major problems and come to decisions. ![]() There is no interest in the common good." ― Senator Palpatine to Queen Amidala The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. ![]()
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