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    “Swish! Swish!” Like a pendulum, the feather streaks back and forth across the cursed parchment, marking up my father’s name. My father, the king… oh, how I hate that man. I simply detest him, every ounce of him. Oh, but how the townsmen love him. They call him “King Albrecht II, the honorable.” Yeah, right, “honorable”. How could you describe signing a law into action requiring the entire kingdom to inform him of all decisions made honorable? Because this article of corruption is what he’s…

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    Kingship Oakley Summary

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    Francis Oakley’s Kingship is a scholarly book that addresses, the reader about the history of kingship and how it went from being the most common form of government to being almost nonexistent. Francis Oakley talks about the Mayans the Egyptians and the Japanese Emperors. Not only will the reader learn of the history of kingship in this book and, reader will also be able to learn the concepts of why kings were in control and were respected. At the very beginning of the book Francis Oakley states…

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    Freedom of expression supports a new system- a republican form of government, not the monarchy rule that England had. Lee believes that England’s common law is correct and it should stay exactly how it is, but that is illogical. England has an absolute monarchy, with parliament to check their power, but a monarchy is not the same thing as a democracy which is what we have in the United States. Madison says, “In the British Government the danger of…

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     William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies. 1601-1608 is the third period that belong to Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies and somber or bitter comedies. This is the peak period characterized by the highest development of his thought and expression. He is more concerned with the darker side of the human experience and its destructive passions. This period produces many great tragedies like Hamlet, Othello, All’s well that Ends well, and the most famous is Macbeth.…

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    Henry Thoreau believes that the government must be better, not just for the majority, but for all those that are part of it. He begins his civil disobedience essay by stating, “the government is at it’s best but expedient ,” this is implying that government fails to resolve the issues that the people quickly, making whatever provided “worse than the evil.” Thoreau believes that a government runned by the majority, does not necessarily make the decision fair and just, it simply means that it is…

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    Political Ideology of Liberalism For centuries, different political ideologies have dominated the world in various regions with their own set of beliefs and values. Successes and failures were the deterring factors for an ideology to thrive or perish. Although numerous amount of political ideologies are being practiced in our contemporary society, however, there are only five fundamental roots of ideologies that laid the foundations: Liberalism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Anarchism.…

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    Governments are the sole things that will make a country run smooth. When we put a society ruled by a monarchy and a society run by a dictatorship, we can clearly see the similarities and differences that define these two governments. In an absolute monarchy, the country is ruled by a family that will make all of the laws for the people, but in a dictatorship, there is only one singular person that decides the laws for the country. For both of these countries, this means that the people will…

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    Greek Oligarchy Government

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    In a monarchy government, the power to make decisions is in the hands of one person, usually called a king or a queen. The word monarchy comes from the Greek root words monos (which means “one”) and arkhein (which means “rule”). From about 2000 B.C.E. to 800 B.C.E., most Greek city-states were ruled by monarchs—usually kings (the Greeks did not allow women to have power). At first, the Greek kings were chosen by the people of the city-state. When a king died, another leader was selected to take…

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    From the Early Middle Ages through the Renaissance, a common form of political writing were mirrors for princes. These works were essentially handbooks for rulers, creating an image of kings meant to be either imitated or avoided. In the 13th century, Saint Thomas Aquinas detailed his beliefs in his own mirror, On Kingship. In the piece, Thomas takes examples from the natural world to advocate for his ideal form of government, a kingship, and discusses how a king can lead his people to the…

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    And so the republican constitution in Rome had been born out of this frustration and anger towards those in singular power, with even the concept of kingship being treated with great hostility and suspicion – the people of Rome did not miss the monarchy and did not at all wish for it to be reinstated. However flawed the Republican system was, it was viewed as being the only way in which the people of Rome could ensure their lives as being cared for in a fair and equal manner – indeed there was…

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