Andy Levin tweeted the following:
"If a ruler was overthrown, they were said to have lost this mandate due to their own actions. Thus, a right of rebellion is baked into the theory."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Andy Levin:
"In particular, Ive been thinking about the Mandate of Heaven, a doctrine holding that an emperor had a continuing mandate to rule if their actions were effective and just."Read on Twitter
"For folks who have studied Chinese history, its hard not to make connections between these authoritarian times and the many centuries of dynastic rule in China."Read on Twitter
"Some place the events in historical context, but they only go back to the 1989 democracy movement, or at most turbulence under Mao."Read on Twitter
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