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It was synonymous with the words rex, . It contained in itself not the idea of paternity, but that of power, authority, majestic dignity.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Nizam ul-Mulk was an ingenious general but an even more talented statesman, using bribery and intrigue to achieve what his old-fashioned and outmoded Mughal armies could not. While breaking from the direct control of Delhi, he made a point of maintaining his nominal loyalty to the Mughal Emperor, and throughout the eighteenth century the people of
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
The authority of those papal bulls was adopted into U.S. law in 1823 in three seminal Supreme Court cases known as the Marshall Trilogy. Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the United States was a successor in interest to the lands held by the American Indians, based on rights that were claimed under the Christian Law of Nations (laws of
... See moreLarry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
We, it is true, have now the same right and the same charter for our dominions that the Mahomedan founders of the house of Delhi had for the sovereignty they claimed over Hindustan [i.e., the right of conquest] but we did not come into India, as they did, at the head of great armies, with the avowed intention of subjugating the country. We crept in
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Algorithmic Sovereignty
Ben Moe • 1 card
Mais, par son intervention, le gestor s’oblige à l’égard du dominus comme par un traité. Quasi ex contractu. C’est la position légale préexistante ou, de façon plus exacte : la position légale qui se forme concomitamment dans l’État.
Théodore Herzl • L'État juif (French Edition)
Like many North American peoples of his time, Kandiaronk’s Wendat nation saw their society as a confederation created by conscious agreement; agreements open to continual renegotiation.