... political and economic revolutions through the world. Yet the country's unity against Charles ended with the severing of the monarch's head. After his execution, the country was still in turmoil over the rights of the different classes. The elite maintained that they were entitled to greater power in the country, because they had a greater invested interest in it. (4) They were usually more educated and thus could make more informed decisions for the rest of the country who wouldn't understand the complex workings of the country. Also, the landed nobility had more to lose or gain that the poor. In their eyes, to give their power to the lowly masses would be ruinous, because experience had not taught them enough to responsibly act for the good of the whole. They thought that it was their duty to look after the best interests of the lower classes living on their ...

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