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nope. the driver behind the formation of the modern state was the emergence of modern warfare and the idea of a professional army/navy, which required a centralization of taxation and a rationalization of the state to accomidate that. bonaparte.
btw the statement is not a complete history of the modern state by any means. it just points to the central driver behind its emergence.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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