So wealthy and influential men of Rome are in the Senate. How are they selected for the Senate? Well, in the early days, it was actually the consuls who selected the senators. Later on, or shortly thereafter, and for most of the Republic period of Rome, it was a position called the censor that decided who got to actually serve in the Senate. Now, another question you might say, well, who's deciding who gets to be a consul, who gets to be a censor? And there's many other of these executive positions that are generally called magistrates, and that came from one of the assemblies of the Roman Republic, in particular, the centurion assembly. Centurion assembly, which elected consuls, the senior executives, the senior magistrates is one way that you could think about it.