What's a Relationship, Sorry, to the State?

There was no stable way for the till i raise money and then be accountable for how that money was spent. That is a thing that doesn't really get resolved until mass suffrage in the early twentieth century. In all these revolutions, really, as political events, they all get going at a point where the kind of emerging middle class feels like it's got the political confidence to say we don't want to keep paying for your warsen shir. And so some kind of deal has to be worked out by which those taxpayers are then consulted on how the money gets spent.