Congress of Vienna Talks Power

When a king or president is having their power threatened, they will do everything they think is right and justifiable to get their power back. For example, in class, we took real decisions that Prince Charles von Metternich was faced with and had to decide what his actual actions were. We had to decide what Metternich would do about the redrawing of the map of Europe, establishing a new leader of Europe with the absence of Napoleon, and how to discourage new revolutions from occurring.

In preventing new revolutions, the Principle of Intervention was introduced. This principle was brought about because of the warfare Metternich had seen spread across countries that caused many deaths. It was the idea that if a country in Europe was experiencing revolutions, other European countries had the right to enter into the revolutionary country and break up the revolutions. The country intervening with the revolutionaries had the order to restore monarchs to their power. With this ideal in place, many future revolutions were stopped and monarchs kept their power. If a revolution did occur, it was considered treason and against the will of God, therefore making it highly punishable. Governmental forces were able to crush revolutionaries and protect the monarch's power.

I do not completely agree with the Principle of Intervention and think there is a better way to go about the situation of revolutionaries. The Principle of Intervention would only cause more death of the people of a country, not create lasting peace.  A better way to go about this may have been for monarchs to show more kindness towards their people in order to stop ideas of revolutions. The leaders in Europe should have thought of giving the people of Europe more rights, like religious freedom and freedom of speech, so as to make their people happy and give them no reasons to revolt.