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On the Future Ascent of a Caesar

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Rise of a Caesar

A coup may be led by a powerful, carismatic individual. A true caesar is a sovereign dictator who channels the constituent power of the nation to create something that did not exist before. With a new constitution, he begins the new. I will mostly ignore three other possible solutions, renewal, civil war and cop renewal. Given the mass of forces arrayed against the principles that founded america, renewal could never happen, except through extreme violence. That violence itself would ensure that an attempted renewal would not renew, but rather create something entirely new.

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