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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 (-5[1])a similar argument by John of Salisbury. The belief that English (*) monarchs had both a natural and spiritual one of these objects (10[1])is described in an (10[1])Ernst Kantorowicz (“can-TORE-o-vich”) work 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, (10[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
Joel MilesThompson et al.CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!66-5
Michael CoatesI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retirethrow away your cards, rally in the streets8810
Eric MukherjeeCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!Thompson et al.9210
Arjun VijaykumarAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big boomsUBC12210

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