True Things 3

You probably know that there been at least one example - a famous one - of a republic with term-limited leaders becoming an empire with emperors for life.  This example is, of course, the decline of the Roman Republic, in the first century AD, and the rise of the Roman Empire, ruled over absolutely by emperors who were more likely than not to act in bizarre and unhinged ways.

It didn't help that the Roman Republic was rigged so that a small number of wealthy men got to make all the decisions.

Those of us who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.