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French magistrate and humanist, author of the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which argues that tyranny survives only because people consent to it. He proposes peaceful refusal to obey, not violence, as the path to freedom.
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Étienne de La Boétie leans further toward liberty than 91% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Power is where Étienne de La Boétie stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Étienne de La Boétie sits practically at the catalog median.
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Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Synthesis that unites free markets and a minimal state with the defense of tradition, family, and order, valuing individual freedom and personal responsibility alongside the preservation of customs and institutions.
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A union of Poland and Lithuania from 1569 to 1795, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a noble republic with an elected king, a Sejm and the liberum veto, unusual religious tolerance and a vast multiethnic territory, until partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
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