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Renaissance:
Moving Toward the Modern State History has shown us
how civilizations evolve over time. Broadly interpreted, the
age of Diocletian marked a decisive stage in the transition
from the classical, the Greco-Roman, civilization of the
ancient Roman Empire to the Christian-Germanic civilization
of the early Middle Ages. Similarly interpreted, "the age of
the Renaissance marked the transition from the civilization of
the Middle Ages to the modern world"(Ferguson 1).
Therefore, the Renaissance is the beginning of the modern
world and modern government. In law the tendency was to
challenge the abstract dialectical method of the medieval
jurists with a philological and historical interpretation of the
sources of Roman Law. As for political thought, the
medieval proposition that the preservation of liberty, law,
and justice constitutes the central aim of political life was
challenged but not overthrown by Renaissance theorists.
They contended that the central task......

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