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[Star Wars] How did Palpatine transition the Republic to an Empire in a single night?

Wouldn't he have to deal with alot of paper work and documents? Even Augustus didn't transform the Roman Republic into the Empire over a single night.
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What Palpatine did was incredibly similar to what Augustus did.  

As in, he didn't do it in a single night.  What the Jedi and some of the Senators like Bail Organa and Padme didn't realize was that the Republic had been functionally the Empire since the Clone Wars.  Palpatine had slipped the democracy into autocracy before people realized that he'd done it.  There was just one day, when Palpatine used the attack by Mace Windu and Order 66 as his justification for dropping the pretense and announcing the Empire openly.