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The Council Of Elders (Gerousia) comprised 30 citizens who were males at least 60 years of age and included the two kings. Those conducted the routine business of government and put important decisions to the assembly which comprised all male citizens, which also elected the council members.
The council called an assembly and placed significant matters before them on which the voted for and against.
the government discouraged foreign visitors, banned travel abroad for any reason but military ones, frowned upon citizens who studies arts and literature, and two kings headed a council of elders.
Sparta was not an oligarchy, it was a limited democracy. The council put major problems to the assembly of citizens. This was unavoidable as the army was comprised of the ordinary citizens, and they had to be consulted to keep them on-side.