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and said you've been unfairly treated by these aristocrats.
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If I get in power, I will see to it
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that you are enrolled again as citizens.
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So, all of that is happening,
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and people are very excited about what is going on.
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That's the background for these rather dry and puzzling details
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I'm about to lay on you to try to describe
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what these new laws were
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that amounted to some kind of a democracy.
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The center of them, apparently,
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was reforms of the tribes,
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and they are in some ways very radical indeed.