The republic's constitution, while malleable and evolving, still had substantive norms that entrenched certain portions of it. The senate, consuls, etc were at various times reformed substantially, but existed continuously through the whole republican period. And the rule that what the legislature (here the assemblies) created was binding law continued, with exception of the dictatorships, through the whole of the republican period. Starting from a period of patrician domination, the Conflict of the Orders eventually granted plebeian citizens equal political rights, while also creating the tribunate to check patrician power and empowering the plebeian assembly, an assembly composed of the plebeians of Rome, with full legislative authority.