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Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankw...@gmail.com>
Re: will someone explain
petition for new election
Re: will someone e
On 02/04/2017 04:47 AM, Scot Mcphee wrote:
(after the death of Nero) Thus it variously motivated minds, not only
in the city amongst the fathers, the people and the urban soldiers,
but it roused all the legions and their leaders: for the secret of the
empire was divulged - it was possible to
On 03/Feb/17 20:47, Scot Mcphee wrote:
Tacitus seems to understand it pretty well:
*ita varios motus animorum non modo in urbe apud patres aut populum
aut urbanum militem, sed omnis legiones ducesque conciverat, evulgato
imperii arcano posse principem alibi quam Romae fieri. *(Tac. Hist.
1.4)
On 4 February 2017 at 07:32, Keith Hart wrote:
> Why ask Americans to explain? Would you expect Romans to understand
> the Empire, better to ask a Greek slave.
Tacitus seems to understand it pretty well:
*ita varios motus animorum non modo in urbe apud patres aut
Why ask Americans to explain? Would you expect Romans to understand the
Empire, better to ask a Greek slave. In any case, there is no better
account of what makes the Americans tick than Alexis de Tocqueville's.
Incidentally the French government sent him there with a mate to study
the prison
gly constructed with -checks and
> balences- so as to ensure that the President can never be a
> dictator/king/emperor.
>
> And yet it appears (at least froma distance) that he is able through
> this instrument called -executive orders- to do whatever he likes. Can
> someone explain
Ben is on target. Additionally, while it seems there are constitutional
grounds to challenge quite a few things Trump is doing, it requires not
only the political will from the other branches to mount the challenge,
but the further will to force the matter if Trump and others alied
that the President can never be a
dictator/king/emperor.
And yet it appears (at least froma distance) that he is able through
this instrument called -executive orders- to do whatever he likes. Can
someone explain this apparent contradiction. Has he (or Bannon)
introduced in his campaign (and now in government