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How Should We Rule....or I' How Should We Rule…Us or I All across Europe, from Ancient Greece to 17th Century England, different ideals and theories of government have been tried. Each system has their unique benefits and possible downfalls. Some give power to the people while others believe the people are incapable of making decisions about their welfare. Some may not seem fair while other may seem to give to much power to the people. These are all arguments that the philosophers Machiavelli, Ireton, Bossuet and Pericles would make about each other’s different ideals and understanding of their fellow man. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet was a true supporter of “Divine Right,” or that monarchs derive their right to rule from God and are accountable only to God (The American Heritage Dictionary of English Language). In the excerpts from his “Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture,” Bossuet attempts to defend divine right and relate it directly into to the Bible. The main points Bossuet uses to defend divine right are “First, royal authority is scared; secondly, it is paternal; thirdly, it is absolute; fourthly, it is subject to reason…”(Bossuet,137) However the excerpt that the course people, bossuet, right, spielvogel, pericles, ireton, government, divine, make, machiavelli, however, men, because, prince, power, parliament, different, while, time, stated, say, ruler, one, nature, leader, king, human, god, give, first, about, whatever, welfare, war, vote