In my opinion, this government wasn’t very fair because not everyone had the chance to voice their opinion. The Roman republic was maintained by the plebeians and the patricians giving them a not fair but very strong structure of government.
Initially, Augustus embarked on establishing his power through the dissemination of propaganda, promises and bribes, which enabled him to raise his own forces and ascertain public support. After the murder of Julius Caesar in 44BC, Augustus, as adopted son and heir, was thrust into the subsequent political and military upheaval. Though, as Holland commented, “For the moment, Caesar’s heir was merely a nuisance, not a factor of much influence upon the policy of Antonius and the Senate.” In order to demonstrate that he undertook his inheritance seriously, Augustus obediently fulfilled Caesar’s legacy by granting 300 sesterces (75 denarii) to each Roman citizen, a generous act which required 75 million sesterces (18,750,000 denarii). However, Antonius had rebuffed Augustus’ claims to inheritance, “answering him with excuses and delays.”(Grant). As a result, Augustus was forced to auction his inherited ¾ of Caesar’s estates, as well as his own property, an action which ensured Augustus greater popularity and odium to be thrown towards Antonius.
Pompey was seeking to gain the consulship on the platform of full restoration of tribunal power. This warranted him the automatic control and support of the tribunes. A specific example is that of Lollius Palicanus who agreed to assist Marcus Cicero with the trial of Gaius Verres only if he agreed to vote for Pompey in the upcoming election. Pompey discovered that having the support of the tribunes, and thus the common people,
Therefore, competence was rewarded and incompetence punished. * In addition to consuls, there were other elected officials – judges, magistrates and tax collectors being some of them. Ten “Tribunes of the People” were also elected to look after the poor of Rome. * The consuls could not be expected to know everything. They were advised by a Senate.
The main reason for the failure of the Frankfurt parliament was indefinitely its lack of military power, which could have been used to combat any opposing forces that didn’t follow with their decisions. However Prussia and King Friedrich Wilhelm IV (King Frederick William or KFWIV) must also be counted into the failure of the Frankfurt Parliament, as must the factors of Austrian presence and Internal Problems within the Frankfurt Parliament. Primarily, military power was non-existent in the Frankfurt Parliament and in its endeavours, as there was simply no money to pay for an army. Many states in Germany had armies, but none were as powerful as that of Prussia or Austria. The parliament would have been able to muster volunteers, but there was no money to equip them with weapons, and the only way that the Parliament would have been able to make money, would be by introducing taxes.
Hitler was considered to be incapable of making a decision and as a result his government lacked any form control of important decisions and his general poor leadership skills it is clear to see why Hitler can be seen to be a weak dictator. Hitler was purely the figurehead of the Nazi party being kept afloat by his loyal following of ‘henchmen’. Although from an outside perspective it would seem as though Hitler was a strong dictator this is purely as a result of Nazi propaganda, without the work of Goebbels Hitler would not have gained such a high status. On the other hand internationalists believe that although there were divisions within the Nazi party this was all part of Hitler’s ‘divide and rule’ strategy. They believe that this approach maintained Hitler’s personal power.
Before they were following the orders of British officers, therefore when they revolted they had no common leaders to organize them. This meant they were not united and could not act efficiently, therefore it was easy for the British to defeat them and end the rebellion. This reinforces the view it was not a significant threat as they did not have the same organization as the British making it impossible for them defeat the British. The significance of the mutiny could also be seen in
Why did the 1905 revolution fail? The 1905 revolution failed for a variety of reasons many of which are to do with the revolutionaries themselves such as a lack of leadership and that they were divided in their aims. One of the reasons that the 1905 revolution failed is that the revolutionaries had no leadership; this meant that they were unorganized and therefore attacks and industrial action were randomly taking place according to other strikes. Therefore the threat from each individual strike was much less of a threat to the Tsarist regime than they would have been had the industrial action been coordinated so that they happened at the same time; this allowed the Tsar and the army to be able to eliminate the individual threats much easier than had there been widespread attacks. Therefore the Russian revolution of 1905 failed because the revolutionaries were to easy to defend against as their attack were not in synchronization meaning the army only had to stop one group at a time meaning the revolutionaries suffered heavier casualties than they would have done.
Williamson D.D. Williamson had trouble managing projects that were successful, so they took a step back and pinpointed the cause of the issues. They found the cause to be the lack of project prioritization. There were projects of great importance being pushed to the side while less important projects were being started. As a result, projects went over budget and there was a great chance of missed opportunities due to their disorganization.
To start off with, there are two main fundamental problems which faced the PG. These were the fact that it had neither authority nor power. To begin with, the PG lacked authority. Its members were not elected even though the PG promised to hold elections to a constituent assemble at the first opportunity – but with a war raging, this was an impossible task. How is this responsible?