The king’s legislative (law giving) function now rested with this body. Brutus recruited men from the Equestrian class both as patres and as conscripti, a move that contributed to the concord of the state and attached the affection of the commons to the patricians.

The Senate was composed exclusively of members of the patrician class; families that had achieved exalted status in Roman society. From now until the end of the republic, the senate would become the preeminent body that governed Rome in foreign and domestic policy. The military and political elite would be drawn from this body and the governmental magistracies would for a time become the exclusive province of this class of citizens.