The Necessity of Constitutional Government

Nicholas drafted a definitive statement that would pour bleach all over the last remnants of the democratic weed. It famously said: I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my father. He considered constitutions and parliaments to be literally sacrilegious barriers standing between the people and their father, the czar. But still, by not even pretending to be interested in reform or in asking for help governing the empire, nicholas turned all those liberals and democrats and constitutionalists away from officially sanctioned channels that supported the regime and into revolutionary channels that sought to overthrow it.