Senate (Nova Roma)

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The Senate of Nova Roma is a council where a select few citizens, mostly former or current magistrates, can discuss the state of the Republic and issue statements on what course of action they perceive most beneficial. These may be advisory or decisive in nature, the latter mostly in regards to appointments. It is said by Polybian theorists to represent the element of Oligarchy in the Roman political equilibrium.

Contents 1 Senators (album senatorium) 1.1 The senators and their status 1.1.1 The decisions appointing new senators 1.2 The current album senatorium 1.3 The ius sententiae dicendae 2 Organization of the senatorial work 2.1 Senate plenary sessions 2.2 Senate standing committees 2.3 Senate working committees 3 Current activity of the Senate 4 Senate Handbook

Senators (album senatorium)

The senators and their status

Current consuls, praetors, censors and appointed senators are members of the Nova Roman Senate. Senators are appointed by the censors. The list of senators is regularly revised by the censors, but senators are only removed if they bring the Senate into disrepute.

Present and former holders of higher magistracies are not necessarily senators but have the right to participate in meetings of the Senate (the ius sententiae) by virtue of their office. A person who holds a higher magistracy will normally become a senator after his term of office.

Tribunes of the plebs are entitled to attend the sessions of the Senate but don't have the ius sententiae unless they are senators.

The decisions appointing new senators

Apart exceptional times when new senators may be appointed by a dictator, such an appointment is made by both censors.

The Censorial edicts on Senate appointments will provide most of these decisions.

The current album senatorium

The current senators are in order of senatorial rank :

Censorii
	1. De. Iunius Palladius Invictus	Princeps Sen.	Nova Britannia
	2. A. Tullia Scholastica		Mediatlantica
	3. Ti. Galerius Paulinus	Censor	Mediatlantica
	4. C. Popillius Laenas		America Austrorientalis
	5. T. Iulius Sabinus		Dacia
	6. L. Cornelius Sulla Felix	Consul	America Austroccidentalis
Consulares
	7. M. Minucius Audens		Nova Britannia
	8. P. Ullerius Stephanus Venator		Lacus Magni
	9. Cn. Iulius Caesar	Censor	Canada Ulterior
	10. Q. Fabius Maximus		California
	11. C. Equitius Cato		Mediatlantica
Praetorii
	12. C. Petronius Dexter		Gallia
Aedilicii
	none
Tribunicii
	13. Q. Suetonius Paulinus		Canada Occidentalis
	14. C. Vipsanius Agrippa		Canada Occidentalis
Quaestorii
	none
Privati
	none

The following three senatores were suspended a.d. X Kal. Quin. ‡ because of not paying taxes:

C. Flavius Diocletianus, senator censorius, Germania

M. Curiatius Complutensis, senator consularis, Hispania

M. Iulius Perusianus, senator praetorius, Italia

The ius sententiae dicendae

Those who sit and vote in the Senate by right of ius sententiae dicendae granted under the lex Popillia senatoria.

Current flamen Dialis, dictator, censors, consuls, and praetors who are not Senators, as listed in the album senatorium, shall be entitled to attend meetings of the senate and to vote therein. Any dictatorius, censorius, consularis, or praetorius who is not a Senator, as listed in the album senatorium, shall be entitled to attend meetings of the senate and to vote therein, except one who has been deliberately passed over for sublection.

	1. C. Aemilius Crassus	Praetor	Hispania
	2. M. Cassius Julianus	Censorius	Nova Britannia
	3. L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur	Censorius	Mediatlantica
	4. C. Tullius Valerianus Germanicus	Consularis	America Austroccidentalis
	5. M. Cornelius Gualterus Graecus	Praetorius	Lacus Magni
	6. Sta. Cornelia Valeriana Iuliana Aeternia	Praetoria	America Austroccidentalis

Organization of the senatorial work

The Senate takes its senatus consulta in plenary sessions. In order to prepare them, it may work in committees. They are ordinarily several sessions a year. Nevertheless, the sessions depend on their convocation by a presiding magistrate.

See the Senate procedures

Senate plenary sessions

The Sessions of the Senate are reported here, with every senatus consulta discussed, passed or rejected.

Senate standing committees

Cn. Caesare C. Tullio cos. ‡ MMDCCLXV a.u.c., the Senate standing committees are as per section II of this Senatus consultum

• The Senate Civic Education Committee
• The Senate Communications Committee
• The Senate Finance Committee
• The Senate Policy Committee
• The Senate Public Enterprise Committee

Senate working committees

• The Senate Information Technology Task Force

Current activity of the Senate

The Senate agenda gives to you access to the items currently discussed by the Senate, or going to be.

Senate Handbook

The Senate Handbook will provide for you all the rules applicable to the Senate.

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Roman senate: the Senate in antiquity.