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universal monarchy  

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  • Universal monarchy is a doctrine that had its origin in the Roman Empire, but its best-known form is in Dante Alighieri's De monarchia, completed some time after 1310. Dante's argument concerns the proper location for temporal authority. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Universal Monarchy]

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