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by imtringued 1541 days ago
>Autocrats rarely were willing to give up any of their power voluntarily and paradoxically in the rare cases where they did it only hastened their downfall

Read this section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%...

Summary: The King gave half the population what they wanted and then he used good old military force to struck the rest down and then he regained all of his powers.