The Galactic Senate has a fair amount of screen time in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which recently completed a successful weeklong theatrical rerelease celebrating its upcoming 20th anniversary.

His solution: multiparty legislative bodies. “This is a real shortcoming for the Galactic Senate, for the one thing it really needed was an organized minority party,” he writes, “Through its ...

It occurs in the scene where Queen Padmé Amidala calls for a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Valorum, head of the Galactic Senate. After she calls for the vote, there’s cheers and ...