• The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, lit. 'Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy') is a work of political history...
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    Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226503707. "Discourses on Livy: Book 1, Chapter 18". www.constitution...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli's work on republics, the Discourses on Livy, is presented as a commentary on the History of Rome. Respect for Livy rose to lofty heights...
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  • for his work on principalities, his other major work, The Discourses on Livy, focused mainly on republican statecraft, and his recommendations for a well...
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    Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (French: Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes), also commonly...
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    Western countries. In subject matter, it overlaps with the much longer Discourses on Livy, which was written a few years later. In its use of near-contemporary...
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  • Niccolò Machiavelli. The book contains commentary on Machiavelli's The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about...
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    historical records. Niccolò Machiavelli's work on republics, Discourses on Livy, is presented as a commentary on the History of Rome. The first complete rendering...
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  • republican thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli (as evident in his Discourses on Livy), John Adams, and James Madison. The word "republic" derives from...
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    coined by Niccolò Machiavelli in his posthumously published book The Discourses on Livy from 1531:[citation needed] From the study of this history, we may...
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  • takes a different tone in his lesser known work, the Discourses of Livy. In this work he expounds on the virtues of republicanism and what it means to be...
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  • this term only 19 times throughout his works. In key passages of the Discourses on Livy, he indicates that "the common good (comune utilità) . . . is drawn...
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  • Four discourses, four fundamental types of discourse identified by Jacques Lacan Discourses on Livy, a 1531 book by Niccolò Machiavelli Discourse (software)...
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    Luigi Alamanni. The former was also one of the two men to whom the Discourses on Livy was dedicated. Both, along with Machiavelli, are considered members...
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  • Discourses on Livy is the period's key work on republics, he also wrote the treatise The Prince, which is better remembered and more widely read, on how...
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    scholarship on his works, they contributed to the city's historical and political discourse. Niccolò Machiavelli in his Discourses on Livy evinces familiarity...
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    Cicero, and moralistic historians such as Tacitus, Sallust, Plutarch and Livy. Many of these figures were either personally involved in power struggles...
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  • operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy. As a cross between two similar systems, democratic republics may function on principles...
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    argued that sometimes it is "a very wise thing to simulate madness" (Discourses on Livy, book 3, chapter 2). However, in Nixon's Vietnam War, Kimball argues...
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    Discourses Concerning Government is a political work published in 1698, and based on a manuscript written in the early 1680s by the English Whig activist...
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    The Emperor's New Clothes (category Commons link is on Wikidata)
    published with "The Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C. A. Reitzel, on 7 April 1837, as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales...
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  • publica (54–51 BC) Discourses on Livy (1531) The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) Discourses Concerning Government...
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    Florentines in 1509. Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince and Discourses on Livy, served under him as second chancellor and as ambassador to Cesare...
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  • are usually handled at the regional or local level; however, views differ on what issues should be a federal competence, and subdivisions usually have...
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  • needed] Lieutenant-governors in Canada are appointed by the governor general, on the advice of the prime minister of Canada, known as the Governor-in-Council...
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  • of individual farmers, enabling them to set themselves up as petty lords on the feudal model, while others were annexed or conquered by neighbouring princes...
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  • handbook for monarchs on how to rule efficiently, sometimes referred to as "The Prince of Ancient India", also contains a chapter on how to deal with the...
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  • their virtue could maintain their liberties only with difficulty. His Discourses on Livy outlined realism as the central idea of political study and favored...
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    adumbrated by Locke".: 200  In contrast, Kenyon adds that Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government were "certainly much more influential than Locke's...
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    adoption of anacyclosis can be seen in Book I, Chapter II of his Discourses on Livy. Although Machiavelli adopts the idea of the circular structure in...
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