Though limited in power, all dominant statutes of power such as the Fujiwara and Hojo regents to the Minamoto, Ashikaga and Tokugawa shoguns have all respected the Emperor. ... There were depictions on these Kofun's that showed the Yamato clan gaining power and was also a strong influence on the culture. ... This shows how Shinto and the Japanese monarch have survived hand in hand to this date. ... Thus this indiginous religion of Japan became one which was embraced by the Japanese monarch. ...

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While looking at this basic idea that the goal of government should be to provide for the public good, I find it necessary to first show how each of these political theorists embrace this idea personally. ... Differences arise to even a greater extent when you start to look at how these political theorists apply their basic idea to the actual creation of a government. ... The riches, power, and honour of a Monarch arise onely from the riches, strength, and reputation of his subjects. ... There are also some inconveniences that arise from a Monarchial form of government. There is the fact t...

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In practice, presidential powers have expanded to include drafting legislation, formulating foreign policy, conducting personal diplomacy, and leading the president's political party. ... The Senate also has the power to confirm or reject presidentially appointed federal judges, ambassadors, and cabinet officials. ... Sovereignty resides in Parliament, which comprises the monarch, the mainly appointive House of Lords, and the elected House of Commons. ... All political power rests with the prime minister and the cabinet, and the monarch must act on their advice. The prime minister choo...

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Henry married off Matilda in two marriages to strengthen his political ties against France. ... Whether or not he was going to declare a new heir was irrelevant, for the minds of the barons were made up, and Matilda was not going to be the new monarch. ...

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This is in stark contrast to the Platonic philosophy when man existed to serve the state, the basic idea being that ethics and politics are intertwined, its essential features overlapping. ... Combining these two concepts, the invariable conclusion is that the citizen because of his own uniqueness inevitably becomes embroiled in the internal political conflicts of the state. ... To Machiavelli, the logical creation of an ordered state is a republic characterized by political and civil liberty. ... Machiavelli thus recognizes that an ordered republic that can insure political and civil liber...

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Even William Doyle highlights the storming of the Bastille as "the climax of the popular movement".1 However, the political institutions of Old France were already beyond reconstruction by then. The events of 14th July were in fact the result of a series of events which can be traced back to 20th August 1786, when Calonne (the General of the royal finances) informed Louis XVI that the state was on the brink of financial collapse.2 For this reason (as well as others which will henceforth be examined), although the French Revolution was caused by a mixture of economic, social, politica...

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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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Media and politics have been intertwined since the printing press was created. ... Media and sports have a long history, but sports and politics? ... The story finds political significance in the "third-place match", which was hastily arranged once tournament organizers became upset that a tournament for a new Castilian monarch was being largely contested by Basques and Catalans.  ... When Franco came to power he used football as a propaganda tool for the new regime. ... Franco built much of his primary power by using backroom politics to cement total control of the State. ...

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The Bourbon king Louis XIV, the powerful monarch of the early seventeenth century (1661-1715), had been the most successful absolute monarch in history, but his grandiose imperial ambitions led to massive military failure and had left his country in economic ruin. ... As hard as he might have tried, he couldn't exercise the power that divine right absolutism claimed. ... Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. ... The Magna Carta was a feudal document that was intended to limit the power of the king. ... One of the main stipulations of ...

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This reading of King Lear makes it an edifying play, but it drains it of its tragic power by oversimplifying Shakespeare's understanding of the complexities of political life. ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... The powerfully tragic vision of King Lear is rooted in Shakespeare's understanding of political life, its limitations and its demands. The play turns on what I will call the disjunction of wisdom and power...

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MASTERWORKS OF POLITICAL THEORY Midterm Essay Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke were four political theorists who shared a like mind in the need for the foundation of government and the extent to which its power and authority should reach. ... Societal order and loyalty to one monarch were almost non-existent as States were constantly under attack by different factions. ... An advocate of physical power, as well as governmental power, Machiavelli stressed the need for virtu, a quality that has been translated to mean "...a union of force and ability...will...

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Northern monarchs attempted to assert more and more of their authority against the power of their feudal nobility. Instead of relying on feudal charges for the bulk of their military power, Renaissance princes employed mercenaries in increasing numbers. ... Not just content with expanding their royal rights within their states, European monarchs struggled with each other for economic and political advantages. ... Ruthless in their pursuit of political power and personal gain, they were medieval despots who used their holy office for blackmail and extortion" (Mackenney 1993: 133). ... In hi...

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He found his political works too taxing; he could not cope up with it. ... Political Thought-Wayper. ... He pointed out that parental power should be equal. ... He also rebuked the power of monarchs by giving many metaphors including the Adam as one of the examples. ... Also, a man's moral equality got nothing to do with his physical power and capabilities. ...

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He can still exhibit his common touch despite having the burdens of being the Monarch but it is natural to wonder how. ... Hal's action in ignoring and basically forgetting about Falstaff is monstrous, but it also is the only option open to him to cement his power, what are the alternatives? If he gave Falstaff power, Falstaff most certainly would have abused it; in other words, Falstaff is only fun when he is weak and cannot cause much harm. ... There is much in Henry V that suggests Shakespeare in fact saw Henry V as the most perfect monarch. ... This would appeal to the audience at th...

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Problems in Libya Before the decades of leadership under a cruel and corrupt dictator, Libya was part of the many areas that were under the control of a monarch. ... It gave him the authority to exercise political power to run the affairs of the country, through a government led by a prime minister as well as the power to veto legislations and dissolve the House of Representatives. ... Gaddafi's Rise to Power in Libya From the beginning Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi was searching for a way to rule Libya under his political beliefs. ... (CIA) Gaddafi Maintains Power Under Gaddafi, Libya b...

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For far too long had European citizens consecutively endured the rule and abuse of absolute monarchs. ... In fact, philosophy became a practical method of social and political persuasion. ... The philosophical values that carried notions of natural human rights and power were unexplained by the counterrevolutionary outcomes. ... The highest ideology of nineteenth century liberalism was that economically, maximum freedom would only come as the result of the limited power of government. ... In its early years the United States owed its continued existence to society's anti-power beliefs tha...

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Huntington, democracy has five different elements of criteria, firstly, in terms of elections, Huntington believes elections, open, free and far are the essence of democracy, the inescapable sine qua non (the third wave, p 10), secondly, a democratic country should chose their political leaders through democratic means and that they share their given power with other groups in society. ... Again, an essential political thinker: Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 believed that democracy "is an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to deci...

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In the coup d'etat of November 9th -10th , 1799, he and his colleagues seized power and established a new regime-the Consulate. ... In 1800, he assured his power by crossing the Alps and defeating the Austrians at Marengo. ... By taking the position which France was in at the time, re-vamping the entire political system, and giving equality and freedom to all of France he quickly showed his loyalties. ... By this linking his dynasty with the oldest ruling house in Europe, he hoped that his son, born in 1811, would be the more readily accepted by established monarchs. ... The impact of Nap...

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China has seen much political change in the past few centuries. Changing from being ruled by monarchs, to imperialists, with a short lapse of democracy before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, and ongoing from the 1970s a blend of socialism and capitalism introduced by Deng Xiaoping. ... It is important to note that this paper will not be addressing in particular the development of other areas closely affected by Chinese politics or how these other areas have had an influence in Chinese politics. ... Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Commu...

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Chinese political and social institutions were introduced. ... This concept reinforced the position of the monarch (who now called himself emperor on the Chinese pattern) and the centralized power of the state. But the power of the emperor was not absolute. ... But it did lay the foundation for an educated bureaucracy to administer the state and, thus restrict the power of the emperor and his court. ... Most Vietnamese did not develop a strong sense of participation in the political process. ...

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Term Paper- European History The Religious Wars (The attempts by Catholic monarchs to re-establish European religious unity and by both Catholic and Protestant monarchs to establish strong centralized states led to many wars among the European states. ... The Thirty Years War in Germany (1618-1648) had both religious and political roots, and left that area in political and economic ruins. ... These fears of innovation certainly seemed justified when Henry the Second died suddenly in 1559, leaving an enormous ...

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He was a Corsican provincial who would have never been able to come to power were it not for the revolution. ... Napoleon first got a taste of power under the Jacobins as a commander in the recapturing of Toulon. ... After conquering the peninsula he placed himself in the position of supreme power. ... It was also another sign of how he would govern France in the near future when he came to power there. ... Also of importance was that it rationalized the law, rather than the irrational mess it had been in ancien regime in which laws were put in place based on the reigning monarch's desir...

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He acknowledged the power of his country but the poverty prevalent there worried him. ... He believed that God is the spiritual and creative power in man, and apart from man the idea of God has no meaning. ... So Blake asserts that God is not a cosmic monarch on a distant throne but the omnipresent dweller within each receptive human soul. ... In accordance with political changes, there were religious changes as well. ... When Blake speaks of divine, it is the reference to this power and not any external or independent godhead. ...

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The statement assumes that the good leadership was the underlying argument for the Ottoman empire by enabling the fundamentals of empire-building through territorial, social, political and economical advancements; that without good leadership, the ottoman empire would not have risen to power for it alone enabled the possibilities of the alternative arguments. ... The warrior king is an image often associated with the necessity of projecting power through the clearest way possible-warfare. ... A chief without ability was deposed of and while an incompetent chief may remain in position due to h...

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Book I of Rousseau's The Social Contract stresses that this contract will sustain liberty and/or freedom more efficiently than the state of nature, thus, paving the way for lawful and sound political power. Rousseau says that lawful political power does not exist in nature. Instead, political power becomes legitimate by the formation of contracts built between the members of society. The only legitimate political authority found in nature is that of the authority that a father holds over his child. ... Therefore, agreement would have to be the only legitimate means by which political auth...

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