When Sulla seized control of Rome, one of the things he did to reform the constitution was fix the cursus honorum, establish minimum ages for the offices, and require a minimum of 10 years between magistracies. The idea was to keep any future Gracchus or Drussus from suddenly shooting up the ranks and upsetting the mos maiorum.
It didn't work. The reforms that did manage to last more than a decade after Sulla died merely set the stage for Pompey and Caesar.
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