berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) (12/04/85)
> This sort of thing is happens again and again whenever a middle class > develops. But as far as I know, except for England, I don't know a > single place where a decrease in relative power of the ruling class was not > also accompanied by a civil war. But in every case I can think of, the > decrease in power was FOLLOWED by a civil war; the civil war only being > an indication that the days of absolute power by the ruling class were > -- There was a revolution in England, and a king was killed. The leader of the revolution was Cromwell.