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To: TigerPaw who wrote (24990)7/20/2000 12:35:59 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 769667
 
Yes.... An interesting bit of Byzantine history: the Eastern Emperors kept up the fiction that the Emperor was simply the chief magistrate, the First Citizen (Princeps). They divided the demos of Constantinople into several groups, and when it was time to confirm the new Emperor, there were games and feasts and the pretense of election, somewhat like in the Soviet Union............