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Tell that to Nicholas II of Russia. That's the mistake he made, as well as being a crap Czar. Similarly in WWI it was the constitutional monarchy in Britain and the republic in France that survived, not the autocratic states in Russia, Austria and Germany. Or look at the history of China...

Have to disagree here. Even a corrupted democracy is better than an absolute dictatorship simply because there is are checks on the power of the dominant groups. I never said genocide but they were treated very brutally by Louis, markedly worse than Britain treated the Irish to make an...

ATP You need to read more about actual history. I detest the power of the modern banking interests but I don't have the view you seem to have that democracy or any other system than autocratic monarchy is terrible for the population being ruled. Its a problem that rose in Britain from ~1840...

1) We have will of the banks because their been allowed to gain too much power. That is a failure of our politicians and population and is long after autocratic monarchy was a problem, in Britain at least. If autocratic monarchy lasted then there are zero human rights unless the monarch is...

1) Autocratic rule was replaced by a mixed selection of elements initially dominated by the aristocrats. The key point was that the rule of law applied, to a greater or lesser degree. If Charles wins in England then the only 'law' is the will of the king. This was something Britain had seen...

Airedale260 has already answered the 1st point. It was only really under the latter Stewards that large numbers of Scottish Presbyterians were settled in Ulster. Parliament's importance was because it held the purse strings. That's what Charles wanted to crush it and remove any restrictions...

Have to disagree here. Cromwell wasn't the most pleasant man but he was a damned sight more rational than Charles I. Much of his problem is that when Charles II returned to the throne there was a strong desire to demonise Cromwell, as the republic's leading figure and people who wanted to get...

Would agree fully. I think, given this was pretty much the height of the counter-reformation and the 30 years war was just ending on the continent I doubt that allying with the Catholics would have done him much good at all. There was a huge level of paranoia about Catholicism, which was...

Still a lot more fighting. Charles will seek to suppress both Scotland and Ireland and also need to control England while he's taxing it [probably very heavily to raise the military and possibly other things he needs/wants] without any Parliament or other restrain on his power. Hopefully he...