... of only taxing the lower estates showed in the government's budget. Due to over ambitious wars and extravagant spending on courts, Louis XVI and his predecessor had successfully bankrupted France. The Seven Years War economically drained the country and her losses were considerable in human and territorial terms. The peasants had no food. They also had a huge problem with the seigniorial system, which ... allowed for greater income disparity and a real separation of classes. They were burdened with huge levels of taxation they simply could not pay. Coupled ... from others, since he wou...

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... a strong legal system of rights, is helpful in preventing excesses of the state in terms of offences committed against the citizen and maintaining legitimacy that way. However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. The difference comes with the West's general ... to the end goal or the ideal which is being pursued. Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party sought le...

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... view also seems very convincing as it was exemplified by the experience of democracy in Sudan. After revolution and overthrow of military regime there was an attempt of democracy foundation which followed by year of free and fair elections. Unfortunately, it led to anarchy and then one of the most brutal tyrannies in the history of this country. As it was ... democratic form of government is rather excluded. Democracy cannot be centralized with egalitarian distribution of wealth in terms of overall poverty and oppression (Karstedt, 2006). The presence of a solid middle class is also esp...

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