Two Italian writers wrote handbooks of proper behavior for rulers and nobles. These “handbooks” were Machiavelli, “The Prince” and Baldassare Castiglione, “The Book of the Courtier”.
The statement above is true, however current individuals, as a rule, misconstrue what pre-logical individuals implied by saying that earth was at the focal point of the universe. They didn't imply that earth and mankind were exceptional positively; actually, the focal point of the universe, in medieval European cosmology, was just about the most exceedingly awful place to be. Their origination was that Heaven was exceptionally removed, past the planets and stars, and that at the extremely focus of the earth was Hell. So to be on the surface of Earth was to be nearly as far from God as it was conceivable to be
Jefferson's party, known today as the Democratic-Republican Party, was then in full control of the apparatus of government—from the state legislature and city hall to the White House.
Jeffersonian democracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy
