Dissolution of the Imperial Senate

"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away."

- Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to the Joint Chiefs

The dissolution of the Imperial Senate was an act by the Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine that dissolved the Imperial Senate permanently.

Background
After the end of the Clone Wars&mdash; the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and Galactic Senate ordered a special session of Congress and proclaimed himself Galactic Emperor, turning the old Republic into a New Order in his image In the wake of the regime change, the Galactic Senate became the Imperial Senate which over time started growing weaker as the planetary governors assumed more responsibility over their territories. However, the Emperor preserved the Senate in order to make the Empire's member worlds believe that they still had a part to play in the government. Secretly, the Emperor planned to disband the Senate since the formation of the Empire in the proclamation of the New Order, but needed its body to preserve order until the Death Star was completed.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * Star Wars Annual 1