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    It is not the case that A minister who has not formed cliques and cabals will not murder the ruler

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    • 1.History records numerous regicides committed by solitary actors: Brutus required only personal conviction, not a sustained cabal, to act.
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    • 2.Individual ministers with direct physical access to a ruler possess sufficient means for assassination independent of broader political networks.
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    • 3.The Han Feizi conflates the organizational conditions for seizing dynastic power with the minimal conditions required for a single act of violence.
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    • 1.Aristotle's analysis of tyrannicide in Politics V shows that isolated personal grievance—not faction—is the most common psychological motive for killing rulers.
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    • 2.A minister who has formed no cliques may still harbor private resentments that, unchecked by factional negotiation and compromise, intensify into lethal resolve.
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    • 1.Cliques and cabals are the minister's treasure and source of power
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    • 2.A minister lacks sufficient power to murder the ruler without cliques and cabals formed
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