[quote]Also, we don't allow someone to try and seize full control and strike needless fear and corruption in his wake and quest for more land and power.[/quote]

How will you stop them? Caesar had the will of the people. Peisistratus of your lauded Athenian democracy was chosen by the people to be a tyrant and established a three generation dynasty.

In Syracuse, tyrants like Dionysus I were established by democracy and then cast democracy aside.