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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 De Officiis by comparing tyrants to damaged parts of these objects, influencing a similar argument by John of Salisbury. The belief that English (*) monarchs (10[1])had both a natural and spiritual one of these objects is described in an Ernst Kantorowicz (“can-TORE-o-vich”) work titled The King's (10[1])Two [of these objects]. A metaphor (10[1])comparing the state to one of these objects is illustrated at the top of the frontispiece (10[1])of Leviathan, 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
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange7810
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit9810
Jason RohfritschRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken10410
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 12010
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere15410

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%33%110.00
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