38 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 12 Sep \ on: Why the Family Is Not the Model for the State econ
"This goes back to some of earliest theorists of the sovereign state and absolutism, such as Jean Bodin who described the family as the “true image of a Commonweal.” The absolutist king James I of England declared in 1609 that “Kings are compared to fathers in families: for a king is truly parens patriae, the politic father of his people.”"
This sounds so corrupt, but I have to say, what a king would do.
Was James 1 the one that proclaimed he was his own church?
I don't think that was a James.
Looked it up: Henry VIII
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