Was the assasination of Caesar justified?

[M. Demetrius]

It probably would be different. Instead of seeing the assassination as the causus belli for a long period of strife and civil war, we might see it as what "they" told us it was, a way to restore order. Of course, the actual result was that instead of one "tyrant" (and I don't think he really was that--just wasn't willing to bend to the will of his opponents) we got four or five, all wanting the top spot.

When Augustus restored peace (by winning the war) the result was an Empire--the very thing the assassination was said to prevent. Augustus was clever enough to appease the Senate, and placate the people, but he was a king in all the normal senses of the word.