Around the time of Julius Caesar the form of roman government effected the change from the form of Republic to that of Empire. This, however, only happenned after his death by assassination and was succeeded by his grandnephew Octavius, who in fact was the first Roman Emperor.
They had no real power or authority to enforce their laws, taxes, and/or polices.
A huge part of it had to deal with the way that the French government dealt with debt.
<span>Only their third estate, primarily poor merchants and peasants, paid any taxes. The French largely funded the American Revolution because of their long-standing animosity with Great Britain. However, the debt they incurred was only slowly paid off because the people they were taxing had very little money. The country fell into an economic crisis and resentment began to build against the first and second estates--the weathly, title-holder, landed gentry and clergy. Thus the revolution. </span>
<span>A good comparison is Great Britain post-America Revolution, who taxed their citizens more fairly and avoided revolution by not throwing most of their citizens into the desperate straits of poverty.</span>
That Lincoln was a good person to take care of the Union and the common good of the people. Also that the Proclamation was passed due to strong moral conviction because it was the right thing to do
The leader who was in the USA was Jimmy carter. in Britain the prime minister was James Callaghan. However this is because the detente collapsed in 1979 after soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
As per the question however, in the 1980's the USA leader was Reagan and great Britain was Thatcher Margaret.
