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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. (-5[1])The belief that English (*) monarchs had both a natural and spiritual one of these objects (10[2])is described in an 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, 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
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs73-5
Eve FleisigBerkeleynumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku8810
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonStanford+8810
Neil GurramA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?15410

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%33%110.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%0%110.80
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%33%17%91.33
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%33%109.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%33%111.67