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Johnson showed his full colours early, and we or at least the Brits, should have been warned. But they were taken in by an immense intellect, a clear ambition and obvious capabilities.
The passage of the Lex Titia in 43 B.C.E. effectively legalized the end of the Roman Republic. The law was passed in the crisis arising from the assassination the year before of Gaius Julius Caesar. The Lex Titia bestowed on three men (the triumviri) to make and annul laws for the purpose rei publicae constituendae (restoring the republic). The problem, of course, is that when executive and legislative powers are combined, the result is rule by decree and despotism. Our founding fathers knew the dangers of concentrating power and they designed a form of government with thre...
Thursday, May 6, 2021 The passage of the Lex Titia in 43 B.C.E. effectively legalized the end of the Roman Republic. The law was passed in the crisis arising from the assassination the year before of Gaius Julius Caesar. The Lex Titia bestowed on three men (the triumviri) to make and annul laws for the purpose rei publicae constituendae (restoring the republic). The problem, of course, is that when executive and legislative powers are combined, the result is rule by decree and despotism. Our founding fathers knew the dangers of concentrating power and they desi...