| Abstrakt: |
For a long time, political power was the exclusive attribute of some individuals or groups of individuals who adjudged and exercised it in a discretionary and absolutist manner, the masses of subjects not being recognized with any rights in this line. Their condition, in general, was at the sovereign's discretion. Acts of disobedience were sanctioned with great cruelty, in public procedures, with the aim of continuously feeding the feeling of fear, as the only support of the order established by the sovereign, at his pleasure. However, history has recorded countless facts and events that contested, over time, such a form of government. Even if for the time being they failed in terms of the intended goal, their importance is still remarkable, at least in the fact that they continuously maintained and developed the trust and hope in a social order in which the will of the masses represents the foundation of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
