User blog:GunsnadGlory/Enemy at the gates: Caesar hands over power

When the ancient romans were attacked by an enemy who had practically reached the gates of the city, they would suspend democracy and hand over absolute power to one person (who recognizes that line?).

The last person they did this to was Julius Caesar.

He never gave it back.

What if he did? A democratic rome would not have expanded like Caesar's did. It wouldn't have been as decadent.

It wouldn't have collapsed under its own weight so soon.

Could we be living in rome today?