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In her analysis of governance of the early modern Netherlands, Julia Adams named chartered companies like the VOC among the corporate bodies which enjoyed a mutually beneficial symbiosis with the republic's rulers, the "regent patriciate. With these works he represents how Manuel, beginning in 1523, took the tradition of the Fasmachtspielin Bern and used it as a tool to agitate for reform within an environment where only a minority of the patriciate and populace had embraced the agenda of reform. Most of our imperial Caesars were either born-in-the-purple patricians like the two Roosevelts or led by the hand--even nose--by the patriciate class, much as the elegant Secretary of State Dean Acheson guided the dazed Harry Truman. |
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