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Government is general has always proven to be monolithic; because people who want power, which are almost always the sort who end up with power, always want more power. Even if a system is designed to curtail that sort of thing (as America's was), unless everyone is constantly vigilant...

I am currently educating myself on the French Revolution; in particular, the gross mismanagement that led up to it. The fact of the matter is that the elites of France bankrupted and destroyed the country due to a combination of selfishness, shortsightedness, and repeatedly kicking the can down...

There are so many things utterly wrong with what you just said, I scarcely know where to begin. Suffice to say, your romanticized view of the pre-modern world is incongruent with how it actually worked out in practice.