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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Democracy-Monarchy Cycle', 1.
  • Essays 'The Democracy-Monarchy Cycle', 2.
  • Essays 'The Democracy-Monarchy Cycle', 3.
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Democracy is a system designed to prevent monarchy from happening. It is the adjustment from experience after observing the results of many abuses of absolute power from history monarchs. Surprisingly, when reasoning to the origin of a politic system with Thomas Hobbes' method of science, one can conclude that monarchy is actually preceded by democracy. If this is true, then it would be logical to predict that today's democracy would also be a prelude to a future monarchy, with the assumption that today's democracy has been preventing absolute sovereigns at all! …

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