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en-wikipedia-org-4129		Constitution of the Roman Kingdom - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3809	533	62	Constitution of the Roman Kingdom Wikipedia Therefore, senate literally means "board of old men." The prehistoric Indo-Europeans that settled Italy in the centuries before the legendary founding of Rome in 753 BC[3] were structured into tribal communities.[12] These communities would often include an aristocratic board of tribal elders.[13] The early Roman family was called a gens, or "clan".[12] Each clan was an aggregation of families under a common living male patriarch, called a pater (Latin for "father"), who was the undisputed master of his clan.[2] When the early Roman gentes were aggregating to form a community, the patres from the leading clans were selected[14] for the confederated board of elders (which later became the Roman Senate).[2] Over time, the patres came to recognize the need for a single leader. The legislative assemblies were political institutions in the ancient Roman Kingdom. During the period of the Roman Kingdom, the king was the principal executive magistrate.[7] He was the chief executive, chief priest, chief lawgiver, chief judge, and the commander in chief of the army.[7][23] His powers rested on law and legal precedent, and he could only receive these powers through the political process of a democratic election.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4129.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4129.txt