Auctoritas senatus

The term auctoritas senatus (Latin authority of the Senate ) describes the influential position of the Roman Senate due to its reputation ( Auctoritas ).

This position came to the Senate less through the constitutional , institutional order than through other factors such as the social rank of its members, who for a long time came exclusively from the nobility ( aristocratic tradition of Rome). As a result of the auctoritas senatus, resolutions of the senate were mostly implemented by the magistrates without substantial changes , although they were not binding .

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The auctoritas senatus , however, is not an exclusively ancient phenomenon. For example, the position of Chancellors Bismarck and Adenauer , based on their authority and the charismatic exercise of power, was de facto much more potent than de iure .