Napoleon Bonaparte
The decision of shipping Napoleon to St. Helena from his place of residence in Elba by the European powers was a counterfeit attempt to defy the will and wish of humane leader like him. They were out of legal pragmatism to down play this shipment not to been an arbitrary or elsewhere capricious punishment. On grounds of discrete humanity, Napoleon deserved to live in Elba and not shipped to St. Helena where he would stay separated from the social and legal society he had ruled for long.
Historically, he was born on the 15th August 1769 in the Ajacio of Corsica an island in Mediterranean. He was marked as a highly exploratory military leader who never compromised efficiency. From his military activity, Napoleon went into the historical books as a figure of great historical background as well as a legendary icon in defining pragmatic variable of leadership. (http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/napoleon.html)
However, it was only after his fast rise into the military portfolio when the European powers contemplated him as a threat to global stability. However, this attribute was only attributed to his early childhood anticipation of career in the military. His trial was historically allied to his strong military command, which was characterized by hungry for power and leadership traits. According to Napoleon, his military conquest was a tool for the people in the Europe. (Herson, 2004)
As a characteristic of his military campaign, he made formal constitutional grants, introduced various codes of law, made abolishment of feudalism and also created government efficiencies which fostered development in education, arts and also science. In his proof, Napoleon was therefore a civil administrator with quite excellent characteristics.
In his leadership, he managed to supervise as well as the collection of the former French law in terms of codes which were more prevalent in providing the country’s revolution. In the law codes, Napoleon had made fundamental incorporations of various freedoms for the French people aimed at providing more liberalized state governance.
Such freedoms were legal manuscripts of the formal gains to France during the revolution. They compounded religious freedoms as well as abolition of the state serfdom. Amongst the great codes is the code civil which still persists in the current civil law in the modern France. Elsewhere, he provided governance centralization in which he made appointments for regions administration which was called departments and which were the jurisdiction divisions of France. (Trusdell, 1997)
According to him, the government was for the French people. However, he had stern rejections on the people making the government. He used a strong police administration to provide the rule of order and a stronger governance power. In his leadership, Napoleon had abolished the concept of anarchy which helped tom provide order through afflicting the state of chaos.
His state of leadership comprehended merit reward without any subjection of benefit based on race or wealth pursuit. His concern led to total abolition of feudalism which spear headed equality to the French people without religious discrimination or defense by impartial law. His rule was to overthrow monarchial rule. (http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/napoleon.html)
Therefore, in the state of concern between the European power and the Napoleon, his final settlement should have been in Elba where he lived but not in St. Helena. Otherwise, the state of leadership by Napoleon was a triumphant attempt to bring to birth societal revolution in France by restructuring the societal portfolio. His emphasis was fundamentally liberal expressions by the people with the rule of law and order standing to provide every legitimate form of association for the people. The shipment to St. Helena was a passive punishment which would not be fundamentally held to promote conceptual standards of humanity. He should not have been punished.
Reference
Herson, J, (2004) Napoleon: A Political Life. Parameters, Vol. 34
Napoleon Bonaparte. Retrevieved on 11th March 2008 from, http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/napoleon.html
Trusdell, M, (1997) Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fete Imperiale, 1849-1870. Oxford: Oxford University Press
