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Can you provide some examples for either scenario? I don’t understand this argument at all.
by llamaimperative 2y ago
Can you provide some examples for either scenario? I don’t understand this argument at all.
- pjc50 2y agoIf you want recent examples, you have Euromaidan (popular revolution which succeeded once the government lost sympathy for shooting people in the street) versus South Korea, where public belief in the system was strong enough to force the failure of a palace coup that might have been legal on paper (the provisions for suspending the constitution of Korea).
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- bell-cot 2y agoThe ur-example is probably Ancient Rome. Their Republic lasted for centuries, and the Roman Senate famously had zero formal power. When the Senators were doing their jobs well, it was held in extremely high regard, and Rome did (via some thin "who was elected to do that this year?" details) as its Senate advised. When not - well, things eventually went downhill. And "Republic" was replaced by dictators-for-life, who got the title "Caesar". During the downhill slide, the Romans tried to codify loads of their previously unwritten rules - about how gov't officials were chosen, what they were allowed to do, etc. That really didn't help.