The massacres of Catholic Henry III of France 1589, Protestant William the Silent of the Dutch Republic 1584, and Protestant turned Catholic Henry IV of France 1610 after 19 failed attempts, as well as countless massacres and wars provoked by religious differences, impelled a new approach to governing. ... The people are sovereign and that government officials must serve as their delegates, but at same time, in order to take part in society, the people must subjugate their individual wills to the general will. ... Prussia's Frederick II the great like to call himself "the first servant ...

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