Power Outage.(political fallacies of Charles I, Louis XVI, and Nicholas II)

From: Canada and the World Backgrounder | Date: May 1, 1999 | Copyright information

There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come; but when the idea of democracy spread across Europe some monarchs chose, to their enormous cost, to stand in its way

Charles I, Louis XVI, and Nicholas II had one thing in common; they were all executed because they refused to hand their royal powers to the people.

Charles I, became king of England in 1625. Almost immediately he got into a tussle with Parliament. The king wanted money to finance his ...

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