Resumen de Exercice du droit, exercice du pouvoir: un roi s'oppose-t-il toujours à la loi?
In the ancient Rome law and monarchy don't seem to have been good friends: Livy's Tarquin, the excesses of Caligula and Claudius, or the executions of the civil war in 69. But on the other side, a ruler -wheter a king or a Princeps- was expected to have a legislative and judicial activity like the legendary Servius Tullius, or Augustus, Nerva and Trajan. Still, the risk a good Prince might become a tyrant was too important.
