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  • Marsilius of Padua (1275–1343) was an Italian scholar, educated as a physician, whose intellectual outlook was typical of the secular, educated classes residing in the Italian city-states of his time. His major political work, The Defender of the Peace (Defensor Pacis, 1324), addressed such questions as the nature of the secular state, the idea of popular sovereignty, and the causes of political order and disorder. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Marsilius of Padua]

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