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  • It would establish a complete theocracy, or, rather, clerocracy, of all possible governments the government the most odious to mankind, and the most hostile to social progress.

    The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839

  • Coming, end of the world) was a theocracy, i.e., a clerocracy, headed by the autocratic Pope of Rome.

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

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