Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . ose confidence inthe use of the senatorial prerogative.! The differenceof opinion was not unlike that between Royalist andRoundhead at the outset of the English Civil War;prerogative and the necessities of government wereon one side, law and distrust of rulers on the each case, though much might be said for bothviews in an abstract argument, no one who read thesigns of the times intelligently could doubt thatvictory would eventually declare for that side whichmost accurately represented the feelings and tend-encies of the
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . ose confidence inthe use of the senatorial prerogative.! The differenceof opinion was not unlike that between Royalist andRoundhead at the outset of the English Civil War;prerogative and the necessities of government wereon one side, law and distrust of rulers on the each case, though much might be said for bothviews in an abstract argument, no one who read thesigns of the times intelligently could doubt thatvictory would eventually declare for that side whichmost accurately represented the feelings and tend-encies of the age. In the Italy of that day, as in theEngland of Charles I., peace, order, and comfortwere earnestly desired by the great mass of thepeople; but neither Senate nor King could harmonisesociety under such a strong government as wouldsecure these blessings. When such a governmentdid at last arise, it was in each case the governmentof a single man, resting on military force, but ex-pressing in some degree the will and the needs of aweary and distracted
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