"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">Sulla:
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">1 increased the number of
officers of state elected in any given year
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">2 gave the newly elected
quaestors gain automatic membership in the Senate.
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">These two reforms allowed
Sulla to increase the size of the Senate (from 300 to 600 senators)
and removed the need for the censor to draw up a list of
senators
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">3 transferred the control
of the courts from members of the equestrian order to the senators
and increased the number of courts, thus strengthening the power of
the senators.
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">4 Ended the role of the
Assembly of the Soldiers as a court of appeal for capital
punishment cases and of the Assembly of the Tribes as a court of
appeal for other cases and transferred these to jury courts
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">5 codified and finalised
the cursus honorum, the career ladder for public office, and set
the minimum age to be eligible for each office
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">6 reaffirmed the
requirement of ten years to elapse before being re-elected to any
office.
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">7 established that the
consuls and the praetors were to serve as provincial governors for
the year after they left office.
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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12pt;">Sulla also took measured
to weaken the plebeian tribunes. They were deprived of the power to
propose legislation to the Plebeian Council and the power to veto
the acts of the senate. Ex-tribunes were prohibited from holding
any other office. The tribunes' power to protect individuals
remained intact. Not long after Sulla's death, these measures were
repealed
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