[Peace-discuss] has Congress become Useless?

[Ron Szoke]

The book referred to is _The Coming Caesars_, by Amaury de Riencourt  
(Coward-McCann, 1957, 384 pages) 

"It is the contention of this book that expanding democracy leads 
unintentionally to imperialism and that imperialism inevitably ends in 
destroying the republican institutions of earlier days;  further, that the 
greater the social equality, the dimmer the prospects of liberty, and that 
as society becomes more equalitarian, it tends increasingly to 
concentrate absolute power in the hands of one single man"  (p. 5).  

This might be compared with
Cullen Murphy, _Are We Rome?_:  The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of 
America (2007).  

-- Ron
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