Question: We all live under laws and within a political system. Why do we accept these as legitimate? Is it because of tradition? Of justice? Of efficiency and stability? Of fear? Western history has seen every type of political system, including radical democracies, oligarchies, constitutional systems, monarchies, and tyrannies. How did each of these govern and seek to justify its existence to its own people and to others? What have been the strengths and weaknesses of different political forms throughout Western history? To what degree have political conflicts in the past left us our own troubled legacy of politics and legitimate authority? Need Assignment Help?