balance
In these times of erosion of liberties ...
... it's worth remembering the event that forever destroyed the feudal order. No, it was the invention of printing, and the growing power of the bourgeoisie, or the ideas that emerged during the Renaissance. The most important fact to destroy forever the rights of the caste-aristocrat-warrior was the Battle of Morgarten in 1315 when the Confederate army made up of Swiss infantry soldiers recruited from ordinary people wiped out the cavalry of the Duke Leopold of Austria. And the fatal blow to the aristocracy were firearms: from the time the medieval knights, armed with expensive armor and trained for war from childhood, lost their advantage. This was the end.
The monopoly of power in the hands of warring classes, nation states or whatever, has always been the way to totalitarianism. A city, if you really want to be a citizen, you must be a threat. To be a threat must be strong. To force should be armed and trained. The day that ceases to be armed and trained to become prey. And stop being a citizen.
Confederate Forever Forever Forever
armed threat in war
Forever Free Forever Free Free
This is what is known as political balance of power
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