 As such, he sought to strengthen the aristocracy, and thus the Senate.Sulla retained his earlier reforms, which required senatorial approval before any bill could be submitted to the Plebeian Council (the principal popular assembly), and which had also restored the older, more aristocratic "Servian" organization to the Centuriate Assembly (assembly of soldiers).Sulla, himself a patrician and thus ineligible for election to the office of Plebeian Tribune, thoroughly disliked the office.