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21Chinese sovereign — History of China ANCIENT …
22Style of the French sovereign — The precise style of French Sovereigns varied over the years. Currently, there is no French sovereign; three distinct traditions (the Legitimist, the Orleanist, and the Bonapartist) exist, each claiming different forms of title. The three styles… …
23Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates — The Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates – short title Appointment Of Bishops Act 1533 ( 25 Henry VIII, c. 20 ) was passed by the Reformation Parliament in 1534. This Act abolished all annates and made de… …
24Kant’s moral and political philosophy — Don Becker Practical philosophy, for Kant, is concerned with how one ought to act. His first important work in practical philosophy, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, provides Kant’s argument for the fundamental principle of how one ought …
25Social contract — This article is about the political and philosophical concept. For Rousseau s 1762 treatise on the concept, see The Social Contract. For other uses, see Social Contract (disambiguation). The social contract is an intellectual device intended to… …
26Behemoth (book) — Behemoth, full title Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of england, and of the counsels and artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to the year 1660 , also known as The Long Parliament , is a book written by… …
27Maria Theresa — For other uses, see Maria Theresa (disambiguation). Maria Theresa …
28Leviathan (book) — For other uses, see Leviathan (disambiguation). Frontispiece of Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse, with input from Hobbes Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil commonly called simply Leviathan is a book… …
29Hobbes, Thomas — (1588 1679) Hobbes traced his life long fear of disorder to his premature birth when his mother heard of the advance of the Spanish Armada. This fear of disorder exhibits itself not only in the subject matter of Hobbes s books, in particular… …
30Empidonax Acadicus — Tyrant Tyr ant (t[imac] rant), n. [OE. tirant, tiraunt, tyraunt, OF. tiran, tirant (probably from confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), F. tyran, L. tyrannus, Gr. ty rannos, originally, an absolute sovereign, but afterwards, a severe or cruel… …
