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From: Private Violence and Tyrannicide
  • Another consideration is that in the ancient world, the definition of a constitution was far more expansive than it is today. We tend to think of the Constitution as a document that serves as the highest law of the land. Folks in antiquity tended to view the entire government as manifested as the constitution. Even if no laws were changed, by becoming `Caesar', Caesar changed the constitution, the form of the government. Seen in that light, it's easier to see how tyrannicide could be considered saving the constitution.
    • cam . # .
      The Romans called it Mos so they probably thought it pretty cut and dried when mos was being threatened.
      'Sworn to no party, and of no sect am I.' Frederick Vosper's republican motto.