Direct democracy is structurally conservative; this is not a process that can easily break the habits and radical break with the past; it lacks …show more content…
The fall of the Roman empire:
What led the Roman Empire to fall is the installation of the barbarian kingdoms; the Germans arrive gradually in the West where they create barbarian kingdoms.
Poorly defended by poorly paid and jealous of the benefits attributed to the barbarians soldiers, Rome was shacked by the Gorths in 410 and then twice more in 455 and 472. In 476, Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was overthrown and this event marks the end of the Western Roman Empire.
The eastern Roman Empire was less threatened and better managed, survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and folds on the Greek culture and language he had never abandoned for a change original way for another millennium. In 330, Constantine made the city that bears his name, the new capital of the Empire. After the first barbarian attacks in the 4th century, the invasions of the late 4th and 5th century disrupt the Empire. Rome tries to unite his empire through peace treaties.
The western Roman Empire eventually broke up under the repeated assaults of the barbarians, the capital, Rome was pillaged several times and finally in 476, Emperor Romulus August was deposed and replaced by a barbarian king. This is the end of the Western Roman …show more content…
Middle Age and Feudal System:
The feudal system is the system of government established in the Europe Occidental during the Middle Age. Feudalism was in the distribution of sovereign power between men of the noble class, and the hierarchy of the latter relative to each other. Each dependent on one or more senior, at the same time exercised certain rights to one or more subordinates. He was vassal compared to the person or persons whom he depended, and suzerain compared to those over whom he had authority and he could require different services.
Viewed from another angle, Feudalism comes from the breakdown of public and central government of kings, then those of dukes and county towards the lords. Its impact on society has been very strong in Western Europe and particularly in France. Once installed the descendants of the original owners claim to be the owners of the fields which they inherit, the king or lord can not remove them without a very serious reason. At the end of the Carolingian lands and functions have been