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One thinker forged a letter from Plutarch to Trajan to argue for the identification between the state and these objects. Princes, nobles, and common people are compared to the three components of these objects in a treatise Christine de Pizan wrote for Duke Louis of Guyenne’s education. They're not trees, but Cicero defended tyrannicide in (15[1])De Officiis by comparing tyrants to damaged parts of these objects, (15[1])influencing a similar argument by John of Salisbury. The belief that English (*) monarchs had both a natural and spiritual one (10[1])of these objects is described in an Ernst Kantorowicz (“can-TORE-o-vich”) work (10[2])titled The King's Two [of these objects]. A metaphor comparing the state to one of these objects is illustrated at the top of the frontispiece of Leviathan, (-5[1])where one of these objects is formed by a crowd of people. For 10 points, metaphors of a ■END■

ANSWER: human bodies [or corpuses; or corpora; or le corps; accept the body politic; accept The Book of the Body Politic; accept Le Livre du corps de policie; accept The King's Two Bodies; prompt on humans or people before "people" is read]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Mike BentleyMusic to Help You Stop SmokingBHSU ReFantazio5415
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Notre Dame6515
Jeremy CummingsWashUhawk two of8510
Andrew HartBHSU RebirthWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?9510
Todd MaslykClown SenpaisNortheast by Northwestern9510
Leo TaoClown SquadThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days122-5
William HoustonThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysClown Squad15410

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