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  2. Usurper - Wikipedia

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    A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. [1] [2] In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. [3]

  3. List of usurpers - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of usurpers – illegitimate or controversial claimants to the throne in a monarchy. The word usurper is a derogatory term, often associated with claims that the ruler seized power by force or deceit rather than legal right. [1]

  4. Usurper (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Usurp Synapse, a screamo band from Indiana Usurpation of Qi by Tian , a series of events between 481 and 379 BCE during which the Tian clan overthrew the Jiang clan in the ancient Chinese state of Qi Nest usurpation , when the queen of one species of eusocial insects takes over the colony of another species

  5. Land usurpation - Wikipedia

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  6. Regicide - Wikipedia

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    Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word comes from the Latin roots of regis and cida (cidium), meaning "of monarch" and "killer" respectively. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey Delaroche detail

  7. Sedition - Wikipedia

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    Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech or organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or insurrection against, established authority.

  8. Usurpation - Wikipedia

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  9. Quo warranto - Wikipedia

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    In the English-American common law, quo warranto (Medieval Latin for "by what warrant?") is a prerogative writ issued by a court which orders someone to show what authority they have for exercising some right, power, or franchise they claim to hold.