As a constitutional monarch, he was trained by his advisors to refrain from interfering in political decisions. He remained detached from politics and avoided public controversy. During the early 1930's, the Japanese military gained considerable political influence. ... "He shaped Japan from a hidebound monarchy to a major military power and then to the technological force it has become today." ... Hirohito is the longest-reigning monarch in Japan's history. ...

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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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Then, we should be able to observe its impact on the political world of today. ... The challenges gave rise to the economic, political and social system of feudalism. ... In return, each lord promised to supply the monarch with knights and arms in times of war. ... Feudalism had one enormous effect on medieval society and ultimately the politics of today. ... The concentration of power in the hands of few was always a great unsettling force in the system. ...

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America politics have come along way for the time of its youth. ... This society has removed God and Monarchs from the center of the Government. ... Another ancient thinker would take a step in the direction of a modern political way of thought. ... The thought is that the government was like a mixture of a Monarchy and a Democracy, with God as the monarch, allowing the leaders of the church to govern his congregation. ... Many thinkers thought it wise to place the power in the hands of the people, leading to the idea of a Representative Democracy. ...

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A political party is "A group organized for the purpose of achieving and exercising power within a political system," (Gwinn 960). They obtain their power by either election or revolution. ... Early political parties, centered around aristocratic and monarchial regimes, only composed of nobles and influential people opposed to one another. ... In some countries like Saudi Arabia political parties are outlawed because with the totalitarian monarchial system of government they employ there would have no purpose. ... The United Kingdom is considered a monarchial republic though currentl...

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Several wars with Israel and couple attempts using its large internal Palestinian population were still able to hold power through the late 60's on into the 80's. ... In 1989 King Hussein resumed parliamentary elections and gradually permitted political liberalization. ... Since then he has consolidated his power and established his domestic priorities. ... Palestinians play an important part in the political and economic life of Jordan. ... There are no elections, the monarch is hereditary and the prime minister is appointer be the monarch. ...

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The Etruscan monarchs changed Rome from a pastoral community to an actual city. ... After overthrowing the Etruscan monarchs, Romans developed the Republican government by expanding their military. This enormous change in the political structure was not easy, it took the conquest of whole Italy. Romans developed the political institutions in order to response to the problems as they arose. ... This shows that magistrates may have the right to rule, but senate had the more power. ...

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The once all-powerful Catholic Church not only lost power within religion but was also deprived of its abundant wealth, control over European politics, and its influence over society was reduced. ... The Catholic Church experienced a serious decline in its political power and control over European nations. Before the Protestant Reformation, the Church had an enormous voice in European politics. ... As the monarchs of these nation states gained more power, their interests collided with that of the Pope and had to eliminate unwanted interference from the Church (Tracy 123). ... The conflicts b...

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Not surprisingly, these changes were predominantly religious and political, as we shall see. ... Ultimately, the intellectual origins of the conflict were about power, or more aptly, about the struggle for power. ... The trick was that there were limitations on the King's power. ... Over the century, every British monarch would add to this reduced inheritance. ... In this sense, the Revolution did help to begin turning the wheels - politically and socially - towards "modernity". ...

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Traditionally, Hobbes is seen as a defender of absolute monarchy, a government system where the power is held  in the hands of one man, the Monarch. ... For him, the only way to erect such a common power, and the injuries of one another, is to confer all their power and strength up on one man'. ... The definition of absolute monarchy, is a kind of regime, where the monarch has all the power and where people cannot disobey. ... Additionally, Hobbes stated that people could easily be against what the monarch decided. ... Once involved in this vicious circle of revolutions, the mo...

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There have been four major political systems. ... The Qajars came into power after a half - century civil war. ... The end of this regime came in 1979 when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Iraq, came up with a new version of Islam called Islamic fundamentalism, called for the overthrow of the Pahlavis monarch. ... This Islamic Republic of Iran came into power in 1979 and still is the government in power today. ... The highest position is called the Leadership Council, and it has power over all political and religious problems. ...

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Hume finally achieved some recognition with the popularity of The Essays, Moral and Political. In The Essays Hume addressed problems that arose in ethics and the concept of political economics. ... Rapin portrayed James as "a belligerent, plotting prince bent on establishing despotic power."" Hume saw James as merely following the precedent of power, which English kings had enjoyed for the past 300 years. ... Rapin maintains that such behavior is entirely new for the monarch. ...

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Differences in ideology between ideas of empires and nations had also accounted for geo-political divides. ... A division was seen not only in ideology, but also geo-politically, where the divide of nation states accounted for the national difference. ... Additionally, the concept of a power struggle and the power politics of Europe was a major factor in contributing to the tension and interdependence of the ideas of empire and the nation state in Europe. ... Therefore, this contributed to tension between the national and international, in which the idea of European nation states and Europea...

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Unlike a dictatorship, all the citizens have the power to vote on their leader and the ways of living. ... Women had broken down many huge barriers in politics, but still had many more. ... Since Ancient times, women have had few roles in political society. Power and Justice was held mainly in the hands of males since the theory of politics was first developed. ... Women had broken down many huge barriers in politics, but still had many more. ...

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Queen Victoria was the most memorable leader out of the English monarchs. ... She was very reluctant in sharing her power with her husband. ... Victoria would become England's longest reigning monarch, being in power for sixty-four years. ... During this time, British imperial power expanded on a large scale. British power extended greatly in Africa, India, the Middle East, and Asia. ...

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The Romans and Greece had many similarities, mainly because the Romans, a war society, who would adapt a lot of culture from the Greeks, and would even appoint Greeks into the Roman Political System. ... At times, Monarchs rules, and at other times, Tyrants came and took over. ... These city-states gave power to the people instead of just between the over-zealous politicians, and also gave the ordinary individual a chance to shine and make something of themselves. ... Social class was tied to wealth and not so political control, unless you were to have real clout. ... While Greece was not ...

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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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Between 1939 and 1945, Iraq experienced shifting tides of political upheaval because of World War II. ... Political turmoil, focusing on British influence, dominated Iraq following World War II. ... However, political unrest did not end. ... The rise in the strength and power of the Ba'th Party after the demise of the monarch became a force in opposition to the Iraqi Communist Party. ... Because of previous negotiations and agreements during the monarch period, Iraq was receiving very little revenue from its oil fields. ...

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It was a revolt against absolute feudal and monarchial restraint. ... The peasants were reduced to extreme poverty in an attempt by the monarch and noblemen to build up greater wealth for themselves. ... The colonies had practically been self-governing before the war, with their own political officials. ... It was a constitution of political freedom. ... Three political parties were formed. ...

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This resulted in a hierarchy of persons with political authority, who exercised in their own interests powers normally attributed to the state. ... The paramount feature of this theocratic kingship was to turn divine grace into a divine right whereby the monarch ruled by the grace of God. ... This was the first time an English monarch came under the control of the law. Therefore, as feudal kingship developed, the semantics of "feudal" became more restricted and technical in the midst of legal references, whereas in previous periods feudality primarily had more social and political connotat...

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The 17 th century was a time when a great many issues that had arisen since the Reformation came to ahead: religion, politics, power and freedom were questioned as never before. ... For more than 20 years, Milton set aside poetry to write political and religious pamphlets for the cause of puritanism. ... All the texts written before Milton dealt with politics (king) or religion (God), but now something appears in the middle: the man and his experience. ... On the one hand, Satan can be related to the monarchs who ruled during the 17 th century. ... Milton did something similar since he wrote p...

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France was an absolute monarchy and a fatal weakness in the system was its inability to produce strong monarchs. ... A limited monarch now appeared and the National Assembly had set up eighty-three departments, had curbed the power of the church and abolished the evils of the old regime. ... But gradually, as the need for terror decreased, so did the power and influence of Robespierre. ... In power, he worked on organising France and closing off the revolution. ... When the inevitable seizure of power did take place, the Bolsheviks did so with relative ease. ...

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The Revolution also gave new meanings and new ideas to the political ideas of the people. ... Under the Old Regime in France, the king was the absolute monarch. ... Louis still borrowed money to fight wars and to keep French power alive in Europe. ... When King Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. ... Monarchs of European nations feared that the Revolution would spread. ...

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The power of government is separated into three branches, executive parliament, and a judiciary headed by a Supreme Court. ... The role of the president, modeled after the British constitutional monarch, is largely ceremonial. ... Political parties play a major role in the democracy of India. For many years a national party known as the Congress Party was the most powerful political party in India. ... While the British occupied India, many of their customs and politics rubbed off India and its peoples. ...

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Since US statesmen had little trust in the arbitrary judges and monarchs of Britain, the Articles provided for no judicial or executive branch. ... Congress was a weak body, again reflecting the US's fear of monarchs as well as the independent heritage possessed by the separate colonies. ... The Rhode Island letter also reveals a distrust in the appointed officers of Congress and a disinclination to surrender any power to Congress. ... This was particularly evident in the areas of foreign relations, internal discontent over tariffs, and political party struggles. ... Political party stru...

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