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That is to say, someone with sufficient political
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audacity to create their own authority,
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who has not simply received it from the past,
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but to create their own authority.
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Maybe one could even say Machiavelli's prince is,
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in a way, the first truly self-made man.
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So what, then, is the character of this new prince
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and how does he differ from
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more conventional modes of political authority?
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In one of the most famous chapters of the book, chapter 6,
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entitled, "Of New Principalities
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that are Acquired Through One's Own