Word: rulers
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...South Africa will still control its security, its telecommunications and immigration. Forty-five percent of all Transkeians, and 80% of its adult males, will continue to work "abroad" in South Africa, which is just as well, because there are few jobs at home. After independence, the state's ruler, Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzima, will ask South Africa to give the Transkei more land to ease overcrowding (together, the nine homelands have only 13% of South Africa's land area). Pretoria is expected to refuse, on the rather arch grounds that such a request would amount to interference by a foreign...
...pharaoh neglected to mend his fences. He inherited enormous popularity but wasted it in extravagance and flabby foreign policy, not to mention a gaudy love affair with his younger brother Smenkhkara. Queen Nefertiti produced two daughters but no male heir, and her subsequent fall from favor cut the ruler off from what Drury assumes to have been her steadying influence. Akhenaten mated with several of his daughters in an effort to sire an heir. These dynastic couplings resulted only in a succession of stillborn female infants. Meantime, the priests of Amen continued to frighten the people expertly. By the novel...
Since men form political compacts with winch to govern themselves, when any ruler transgresses the laws of nature or reason, then the governed may dissolve the compact. "In transgressing the law of nature," Locke wrote, "the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, winch is that measure God has set to the actions...
...past decade directed their complaints against Parliament or the King's ministers, not against George himself. They attacked the Townshend Revenue Act, the so-called "Intolerable Acts" and other impositions as being the unconstitutional measures of a misguided Parliament, but not as the illegitimate usurpations of a ruler. In fact, the Colonists before 1764 enjoyed a freedom from parliamentary control that was denied to Englishmen at home. The English, for example, have long paid stamp taxes, against winch the Americans rioted. In claiming extraordinary privileges, however, the Americans argued they were not properly represented in Parliament, and therefore Parliament...
...pinnacle of his power, after a reign of 40 years, the Manchu ruler is engaged in an enormous program of cultural improvements. Some 15,000 calligraphers have been engaged to make handwritten copies of 10,000 books for the nation's half-dozen main libraries. (No books critical of the Manchus are permitted, however.) The Emperor is also subsidizing hundreds of poets and painters to exalt Chinese achievements...