======How Do Leaders Get Power?======
=====Patriarchy and/or Matriarchy with the Nuclear Family =====

=====Patriarchy and/or Matriarchy with the Extended Family =====

=====Tribes and Fictive Family Ties=====
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

=====Religions and the Favored Children of Gods=====
  * 《詩·小雅》豈弟君子，民之父母。//The Book of Poetry, 詩經 shījǐng//, describes the king as the father and mother of the people. The king is the steward of 天 tiān God.
  * https://bibleresources.info/why-was-god-never-called-father-in-the-old-testament-he-is-called-father-in-the-new-testament-kenya/ 


====="Roma patria mea est" — one's country conceived as one's super-family =====
If the entire nation is one family, then there would seem to need to be a head of family. If the people of a country conceive of the ruler of that country as having received his/her authority directly from a god, then the authority of the institution of government of that country is supported by the authority of its institution of religion.

  * Divine rights of  kings. The king as head of the nation as family can be claimed to rule because of having been chosen for that role by God.
  * The emperor of Japan is understood to be the direct descendant of the solar goddess Amaterasu. 
  * The king, and later the emperor, of China was understand to have the conditional authority of God to rule the people as God's steward.
===== Power via the sword. A sovereign forces compliance. =====
==== Hereditary monarchy ====
==== Theocracy ====
==== Military rule ====

[[discussion_114|Discussion on early historical developments]]


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