The creation of the office of military tribunes with consular power in 445 bc was believed to have involved the struggle of the orders.
Henceforth, each year the people were to decide whether to elect two patrician consuls or military tribunes with consular power who could be patricians or plebeians.
During the wars against Fidenae and Veii, Rome increased the number of military tribunes with consular power from three to four and then from four to six.
509 bc–27 bc) it was held by the chief magistrates (consuls, dictators, praetors, military tribunes with consular power, and masters of the cavalry) and private citizens entrusted with a special command.
His proconsular power, that imperium which was the foundation-stone of his authority, was the restoration of the old unlimited consular power of the earlier Republic.
He was given the consular power of introducing business, the right of convening the Senate, the right of issuing senatorial decrees, and, by means of his privy council, he could settle the agenda for each session.
This seems to have assuaged the populace; regardless of whether or not Augustus was a consul, the importance was that he not only appeared as one before the people but could exercise consular power if necessary.
With opinion in Rome turning against him and his year of consular power nearing its end, Antony attempted to pass laws that would lend him control over Cisalpine Gaul, which had been assigned as part of his province, from Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of Caesar's assassins.
Consular political powers, when exercised conjointly with a consular colleague, were no different from those of the old king.
