Akhenaten is the ruler who broke that practice. I think.
The Novikov Telegram. Washington, September 27, 1946. U.S. Foreign Policy in the Postwar Period. ... The foreign policy of the United States, which reflects the imperialist tendencies of American monopolistic capital, is characterized in the postwar period by a striving for world supremacy.
Many changes would enter her life in the next ten years. Significant changes for women took place in politics, the home, the workplace, and in education. Some were the results of laws passed, many resulted from newly developed technologies, and all had to do with changing attitudes toward the place of women in society.
Rene Descartes is frequently considered the first modern philosopher. His
first publication, Discourse on Method (1637), was the touchstone of the
scientific method. A response to the lack of clarity he saw in the world of
science, Discourse describes how scientific study should be prosecuted so
as to achieve the utmost clarity, by using deductive reasoning to test
hypotheses. Descartes explained that the test of an alleged truth is the
clarity with which it may be apprehended, or proven. "I think, therefore I am,"
(cogito ergo sum) is Descartes' famous example of the most clearly apprehended
truth. In effect, the evidence of thought proves the hypothesis of existence.
<span>Easy cases are almost always resolved correctly by lower courts. If there doesn't appear to be a possibility of the lower court having made an error, the Supreme Court will decline to hear the case. Also, the Supreme Court has far too little time to hear every case sent to it, so it will tend to turn down cases that don't deal with important and difficult Constitutional issues.</span>