I was thinking more of the "people's" party of the Roman republic which replaced electoral government with divine monarchy in 27 BC. It's a rather fragrant exam

I was thinking more of the "people's" party of the Roman republic which replaced electoral government with divine monarchy in 27 BC. It's a rather fragrant example of what I'm describing as well as the first one I know of, but I doubt it's the first time it actually happened. Christianity couldn't have been a tool of the rich and powerful in the first century, because it only began acquiring powerful followers around the third century crisis.