Read the excerpt from Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden and complete the sentence that follows. O God, said he, thou patron of my days, Guide of my youth in exile and distress! Who me, unfriended, brought'st by wondrous ways, The kingdom of my fathers to possess: Be thou my judge, with what unwearied care Since have labour'd for my people's good; To bind the bruises of a civil war, And stop the issues of their wasting blood. Thou who hast taught me to forgive the ill, And recompense, as friends, the good misled; If mercy be a precept of thy will, Return that mercy on thy servant's head. Or if my heedless youth has stepp'd astray, Too soon forgetful of thy gracious hand; On me alone thy just displeasure lay, But take thy judgments from this mourning land. In the above lines, the is praying to God to bring an end to the .

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

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d)to persuade readers that a prince must eradicate the royal family of a conquered principality.

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