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Updated: May 14, 2025
Nowhere perhaps is it so clearly apparent as in this instance, that in the view of antiquity a free constitution was inseparable from the appearance of the sovereign people in person in the primary assemblies, or from a city; and that the great fundamental idea of the modern republican-constitutional state, viz. the expression of the sovereignty of the people by a representative assembly an idea without which a free state would be a chaos is wholly modern.
Caesar's work was necessary and salutary, not because it was or could be fraught with blessing in itself, but because with the national organization of antiquity, which was based on slavery and was utterly a stranger to republican-constitutional representation, and in presence of the legitimate urban constitution which in the course of five hundred years had ripened into oligarchic absolutism absolute military monarchy was the copestone logically necessary and the least of evils.
Nowhere perhaps is it so clearly apparent as in this instance, that in the view of antiquity a free constitution was inseparable from the appearance of the sovereign people in person in the primary assemblies, or from a city; and that the great fundamental idea of the modern republican-constitutional state, viz. the expression of the sovereignty of the people by a representative assembly an idea without which a free state would be a chaos is wholly modern.
Caesar's work was necessary and salutary, not because it was or could be fraught with blessing in itself, but because with the national organization of antiquity, which was based on slavery and was utterly a stranger to republican-constitutional representation, and in presence of the legitimate urban constitution which in the course of five hundred years had ripened into oligarchic absolutism absolute military monarchy was the copestone logically necessary and the least of evils.
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