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The main body of the senate, and that portion of it into whose hands government and administration were concentrated, was thus according to the Ovinian law substantially based no longer on the arbitrary will of a magistrate, but indirectly on election by the people.

But the right of the magistrates to constitute the senate according to their judgment was decidedly restricted by the Ovinian law, which was passed about the middle of this period, probably soon after the Licinian laws.

But the right of the magistrates to constitute the senate according to their judgment was decidedly restricted by the Ovinian law, which was passed about the middle of this period, probably soon after the Licinian laws.

As to the adjustment of the senatorial list undoubtedly the enactment of the Ovinian -plebiscitum- exercised a material share of influence that the censors should admit to the senate "the best men out of all classes." II. III. The Burgess-Body. Its Composition II. III. Complete Opening Up of Magistracies and Priesthoods II. III. Restrictions as to the Accumulation and the Reoccupation of Offices

As to the adjustment of the senatorial list undoubtedly the enactment of the Ovinian -plebiscitum- exercised a material share of influence that the censors should admit to the senate "the best men out of all classes." II. III. The Burgess-Body. Its Composition II. III. Complete Opening Up of Magistracies and Priesthoods II. III. Restrictions as to the Accumulation and the Reoccupation of Offices

The main body of the senate, and that portion of it into whose hands government and administration were concentrated, was thus according to the Ovinian law substantially based no longer on the arbitrary will of a magistrate, but indirectly on election by the people.

As the constitution had hitherto stood, men entered the senate either through the summons of the censors, which was the proper and ordinary way, or through the holding of one of the three curule magistracies the consulship, the praetorship, or the aedileship to which since the passing of the Ovinian law a seat and vote in the senate had been de jure attached.

As the constitution had hitherto stood, men entered the senate either through the summons of the censors, which was the proper and ordinary way, or through the holding of one of the three curule magistracies the consulship, the praetorship, or the aedileship to which since the passing of the Ovinian law a seat and vote in the senate had been de jure attached.