Today in class we continued going over the Rome powerpoint and I learned that the rule of the kinds is replaced by rule of two consuls. Consuls are elected officials, term of office is one year. Always artiocrats (patricians), they traced their descent from a famous ancestor or pater 'father' There duties were to deal with justice, make the laws, and command the army. One consul could veto the other, reducing the power of the individual. In the fifth century BCE, patrician dominance of the government was challenged by the plebs, the people. Plebs were 98% of the population.