At the beginning of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Jar Jar is revealed to have been elected as a junior representative of Naboo in the Galactic Senate. This was a significant step ...

The Republic, a democracy, was formerly the galaxy's central government, and its Galactic Senate, located on Coruscant, consisted of elected representatives from planets that were part of the ...

told the Senate in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, “the Republicwill be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe andsecure society which I assure you will last for ...