The ultimate conclusion of this discussion will be – and is – that when an elected head of state begins to mimic an emperor then people will find a new leader, representative of their hopes. In a system of representative politics, citizens make the ultimate decision of who leads them based on how they connect with the leadership. hat connection is a summation of complex intersections of mutual and diverse hopes, history, thoughts, emotions and much more. For a fact, both emperors and presidents represent given territories or states. Both are given legitimacy by the territories they represent, and both are creations of their environments. Whatever the structure or system in place, the most important currency is legitimacy. In other words, where is the centre of power in that particular system of government. Even in the absence of elections, monarchic systems of emperors and kings have been toppled by republics because legitimacy ultimately was a […]
Emperors and Presidents.
