Conservatives and Congress

Last week after our History Class finished learning about Napoleon, we learned about what Europe did after he was defeated.  The former rulers around Europe convened at a meeting known as the Congress of Vienna.  We studied how Europe recovered and restructured after Napoleon, especially Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria.

Klemens von Metternich of Austria
"Conservative, Sophisticate, Skilled Democrat"
http://www.emersonkent.com/history_notes/klemens_von_metternich.htm

The Congress of Vienna made many important decisions within those long 9 months spent debating and discussing, and one was called The Principle of Intervention.  The Principle of Intervention stated that if a revolution needed to be stopped, the greater powers had the right to send in troops to take down the revolutionaries, and restore the monarchy.  In 1820, Italian Nationals rose up against the Austrian government because they wanted a strong country itself, instead of separate states, but Austrian troops were able to defeat them.  King Louis XVIII also used The Principle of Intervention in his favor when he sent troops into Spain to defeat Spanish Revolutionaries.

I think that the idea of intervention was not the best choice.  It was beneficial to suspend a revolution, but only temporarily.  There was no way to officially stop a revolution from occurring all together, because there was not enough trust.  A better way of going about stopping revolutions might have been coming up with a negotiation system.