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Africa knows enough of despotism to doubt a China model.

He seemed to have transformed the Second Empire from despotism to constitutional monarchy without bloodshed or violence.

"You don't go from despotism to freedom on a feather bed," he told reporters on April 24th.

Tunisia, which had been gliding most smoothly from despotism to democracy, has seen riots by religious extremists (see article).

On the other is the Ottoman-Byzantine East, prone to caliph-style despotism, to tribal ties and obedience to the chief.

It is called the National Dialogue Conference, and it is the closest any of the 2011 Arab revolutions has approached to a peaceful, broad-based transition from despotism to democracy.

The wisecracking homespun Will Rogers-like President uses the provisions of a constitution created by Jeffersonian optimists to create a despotism which, to the unthinking majority, at first looks like plain common sense.

Alexander Hamilton's "besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who mouthed populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism," according to his biographer Ron Chernow. .

It is not hard to see why.What those popular uprisings demanded was an end to despotism, an end to humiliation at the hands of the powerful, and a better lot for everyone.But the turmoil has brought few tangible rewards.

He can recognise a despot, and the occasions when despotism has to be checked, by force if necessary.

Strive so far as you can to destroy the foundations of this despotism, not to pluck up and cast out its individual agents".