![]() Louis Bonaparte with his second son, Napoleon Louis.Ĭharles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was born effectively just because his uncle Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte wanted an imperial heir. Two thousand years later, it took even less time for the Second French Republic to fall to the greed for power of the man who became Emperor Napoleon III. ![]() It took only fifty years from the Roman general Pompey’s contemptuous declaration of “Stop quoting laws, we have swords” to the fall of the Roman Republic and the end of five hundred years of democracy. This fails to properly teach people how fragile democracy as a system can be, and how dependent it is on people’s willingness to abide by its rules. Modern western education has a lot of biases built into it, including a basic assumption that democracy is the most natural form of government.
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