Galactic Senate

The Galactic Senate, also referred to as the Galactic Congress, the Congress of the Republic, or the Republic Senate, was the governing body of the Galactic Republic. It consisted of hundreds of senators who represented the many worlds of the galaxy, and was led by a Supreme Chancellor that was elected by and from the representatives. Its primary concern was mediating disputes between varying worlds and dictating the laws and regulations necessary to maintain the Republic. During the final decades of the Republic, however, the Senate was marked by rampant corruption, counting ambitious politicians and corporations among its numbers, and its authority diminished throughout the Clone Wars, successively granting Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine greater emergency powers. Having consolidated his power over the Republic by the war's end, Palpatine ordered the eradication of the Jedi Order and declared a Galactic Empire under his rule, with power of the new Imperial Senate further ceded to appointed governors and moffs throughout his reign. The body was formally dissolved by the onset of the Galactic Civil War with the completion of the Death Star, a planet-destroying superweapon meant to consolidate total control through fear.
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