What were the goals of Tiberius Gracchus' agrarian reform program that led t

Question: What were the goals of Tiberius Gracchus' agrarian reform program that led to lack of support from the senate!?

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The crysis of the italian agriculture brought Ti!. Gracchus to propose a law in favour of the farmers!. He reminded that from the little property was depending the republic's exercitus!. His Lex Sempronia Agraria imposed to occupations of the Ager Publicus a maximum limit of 500 iugeri for each paterfamilias, plus 250 for ever male son (He was pointing on demographic developement)!. It was, substantially, an agrarian law, because it was regulating the destination of the terrain helded over the allowed, that was to be given in inalienable property to needy farmers!.
The execution of the measure was entrusted to a three-members commission, elected by the Concilia Plebis!. Another law, the Lex Sempronia Agraria Altera, gave the commission the plenty of powers, that was the power to judge on the juridical nature of the fields without appeal!. To avoid resistence of the actual occupiers it was conceded the full property of the rest (otherwise formally illegal)!.
Gracchus was supported by some noblemen, as P!. Mucio Scaevola and P!. Licinius Crassus Mucianus, but a part of the aristocracy was hostile: the problem was that the distribution was not reguarding uncultivated lands, but firms already profitable, striking the interests more jealously defended!. When in the same 133 Attalus III died bequeathing his kingdom to Romans, Gracchus was first informed through his clientelar contacts with the Attalids, so he prevented the senate making to vote the assignation of the royal treasure to the agrarian commission!.
Initally many senators were neutrals, afterwards the methods ever more radicals of Tiberius brought the hostiles senators to became majority!.
In fact he forced to destitue his colleague M!. Octavius that was opposing him (such a destitution is a fact without precedents), then about the treasure of Attalus he interferred with the field of public finance, where the senatus was considering itself as the only qualified court!. Finally he decided to be reelected to tribunate in 132, but such a fact, although not illegal, does not happen since many times and was interpreted as an absolutistic trial!.Www@QuestionHome@Com