What the Republic Does to Reformers
In 133 BC, a Roman tribune named Tiberius Gracchus proposed a land reform bill that would have enforced laws the Republic had ignored for two centuries. The Senate stopped him — not with argument, not with law, but with broken furniture on the Capitoline Hill. His body, and those of roughly three hundred supporters, went into the Tiber before nightfall. Historians often mark this as the moment the Republic began its terminal decline. Not a foreign enemy. A land bill and a cousin with a chair leg.
You can read more about Tiberius’s story–and many others–in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives as well as Appian’s Civil War. There are many sources out there, modern and ancient, all worth your attention.
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