Elizabeth initially struggled to prove her legitimacy as Queen due to her sex, religion and parents, however through a series of calculated speeches, Elizabeth populized the medieval theory of the king's two bodies, constructing an image of herself, exploiting femininity, and simultaneously exerting power reserved for a male monarch. Elizabeth's use of language to describe herself resonates with the way gender, power and sexuality were used in the literature of the time. ... From this perspective, one reads a monarch, Basilius, neglecting his kingdom in search of idle, almost womani...

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However, since he, like many other political philosophers, believed that no political or legal system lacks a component in which "an absolute and unconstrained power"5 is concentrated and sovereignty, in the Hobbesian sense, is most definitely present, Tocqueville saw the American sovereign as being the majority. ... "That American political life was so active and varied", Richter continues, "he attributed in large part to the immense power of a free press, which 'circulates political life throughout every part of this vast territory'". But this is exa...

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Examining the socio-political, health , and environmental ramifications of biotechnology and the politics that have followed it would provide significant insight in respects to this strongly polarizing topic, and the radically different scholarly opinions presented about it. ... The analysis weighing the pros and cons of biotechnology/GMO raises a number of ethical, political, and legal questions that must be examined within a framework that-while recognizing the possibility that some existing research is not perfect-will simultaneously explore the possibly disastrous results of leaving the GM...

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