The action was unprecedented and contravened the mos maiorum (Latin phrase meaning "ancestral custom" or "way of the elders") leading to the overall destabilization of the Republic.
The bill's proposed solution was to address the lack of manpower for the empire at that time.
Still, Tiberius stood his ground and went against tradition because he believed in the potential of his land reform programmes.
Once Marcus Octavius was removed from office, the Plebeian tribunes came together and reached the decision that the veto of Tiberius's programmes of land reform should be nullified.
According to Plutarch, Gaius Octavius was one of his descendants, thus making him an ancestor of Roman Emperor Augustus.