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Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
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Twenty-fifth Amendment
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Key People

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev
president of Soviet Union
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
British economist and journalist
Beard, 1917
Charles A. Beard
American historian
Gabriel Abraham Almond
Gabriel Abraham Almond
American political scientist
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V. O. Key, Jr.
American political scientist
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Claudius Salmasius
French scholar
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Moisey Ostrogorsky
Belarusian political scientist
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Meyer Fortes
British anthropologist
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Max Gluckman
South African anthropologist
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Herbert David Croly
American author and editor