The Etruscan monarchs changed Rome from a pastoral community to an actual city. ... After overthrowing the Etruscan monarchs, Romans developed the Republican government by expanding their military. This enormous change in the political structure was not easy, it took the conquest of whole Italy. Romans developed the political institutions in order to response to the problems as they arose. ... This shows that magistrates may have the right to rule, but senate had the more power. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

While looking at this basic idea that the goal of government should be to provide for the public good, I find it necessary to first show how each of these political theorists embrace this idea personally. ... Differences arise to even a greater extent when you start to look at how these political theorists apply their basic idea to the actual creation of a government. ... The riches, power, and honour of a Monarch arise onely from the riches, strength, and reputation of his subjects. ... There are also some inconveniences that arise from a Monarchial form of government. There is the fact t...

• Word Count: 2615
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike a dictatorship, all the citizens have the power to vote on their leader and the ways of living. ... Women had broken down many huge barriers in politics, but still had many more. ... Since Ancient times, women have had few roles in political society. Power and Justice was held mainly in the hands of males since the theory of politics was first developed. ... Women had broken down many huge barriers in politics, but still had many more. ...

• Word Count: 1888
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In reality a republic is a system of government without a monarch(a person that holds power by birthright). In a Monarchy ,the head of state is a hereditary monarch who symbolises the nation and has all constitutional and democratic authority. ... Some changes would have to be made to make Australia a republic , things like the head of state's power has to be defined, in some ways the laws and constitution have to be changed to accomodate the change to a republic for things like the power to dissolve parlament and the prime ministers power to expel the president under special circ...

• Word Count: 991
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The political theorist Charles Louis Montesquieu was born in 1689 in France and was nobility by birth. ... People must honor the monarch and each other. ... In this way no one branch of government would have a large majority of power, as King Louis XIV was working on a tyranny. ... The power centers are the legislative (which consists of one large branch and a smaller, select branch), judicial, and executive. ... Montesquieu was influential in politics and laws and has shaped society today. ...

• Word Count: 787
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The political theorist Charles Louis Montesquieu was born in 1689 in France and was nobility by birth. ... People must honor the monarch and each other. ... In this way no one branch of government would have a large majority of power, as King Louis XIV was working on a tyranny. ... The power centers are the legislative (which consists of one large branch and a smaller, select branch), judicial, and executive. ... Montesquieu was influential in politics and laws and has shaped society today. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

France was an absolute monarchy and a fatal weakness in the system was its inability to produce strong monarchs. ... A limited monarch now appeared and the National Assembly had set up eighty-three departments, had curbed the power of the church and abolished the evils of the old regime. ... But gradually, as the need for terror decreased, so did the power and influence of Robespierre. ... In power, he worked on organising France and closing off the revolution. ... When the inevitable seizure of power did take place, the Bolsheviks did so with relative ease. ...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The third is political democracy. ... Take the USSR for example, the Communist Party obtained their strength and power by the revolutionary path, subverting the political, social, and other orders in the old era. ... The political power and the ownership were in the same hands, but these hands were not the workers' and the peasants'. ... Where was the political democracy? ... The leader of the Soviet became a monarch. ...

• Word Count: 992
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Plato believed that the average person can't make good political decisions and should be left out of the decision making process. ... He believed that the power should be separated into three groups: The Counsel, The Senate, and The Tribunes. The counsel would represent the interests of the monarch, the senate would represent the interests of the aristocrats, and the tribunes would represent the interests of the people as a whole. This way advice is taken from the widest range of people without giving one group all the power. ... Locke never wanted there to be a sovereign power and that t...

• Word Count: 754
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Nicholas II was Czar from 1896-1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarray. ... As an autocrat, no other monarch in Europe claimed such large powers or stood so high above his subjects as Nicholas II. ... Socially, Russia was in just about as much of as mess as they were politically. ... Most were, until this time, politically unaware. ... Surprizingly, the power of the poeple was more than enuogh to impact the Czar's power and to bring a hault to his order. ...

• Word Count: 1882
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School