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A French theologian and the main reformer of the Calvinist tradition, author of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, he organized Geneva as a theocratic republic between 1541 and 1564, disciplining public morality and creating the Puritan model.
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John Calvin leans further toward religious than 96% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where John Calvin stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, John Calvin sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Aristotle's political philosophy, defending a mixed constitution of monarchical, aristocratic and popular elements to avoid both tyranny and radical democracy, reserving full citizenship for those with virtue, property and the education to deliberate.
Project of a dynastic empire organized as a federation of nationalities, with regional autonomy, local parliaments and recognized languages, while retaining a hereditary crown, unified army and military assertion of imperial greatness.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist33%
Heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand favored a trialist federalism to accommodate the empire's Slavic nationalities and ease internal tensions; his 1914 assassination in Sarajevo triggered World War I.
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Africa's most populous country, Nigeria is a federation split between a Muslim north, with sharia in twelve states, and a Christian south, dependent on oil and scarred by Boko Haram, and under Bola Tinubu it cut fuel subsidies.
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A dynastic union of Aragon, Catalonia, and other Mediterranean lands whose constituent realms kept their own laws and assemblies. The Crown expanded through trade and conquest; its institutions were gradually abolished after the War of the Spanish Succession.
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