Public English De regno prints kingly rule as ordered to the common good, not to private will
De regno (De regno ad regem Cypri), in public English and Latin digital corpora, prints that a king is for the common good and that tyranny is a deviation. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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De regno (De regno ad regem Cypri), in public English and Latin digital corpora, prints that a king is for the common good and that tyranny is a deviation. The dated carriers are Corpus Thomisticum and encyclopedia pages. It is not a parliament. It is a limit-heading on personalised rule.
Context
Common-good kingship can bless hierarchy. Split absolutist uses.
Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Thomas Aquinas
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactPublic English De regno prints kingly rule as ordered to the common good, not to private will
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1920 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Corpus ThomisticumCorpus Thomisticum / Fundación Tomás de Aquino · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorThomas Aquinas
- contributed toFactPublic English De regno prints kingly rule as ordered to the common good, not to private will
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Public English De regno prints kingly rule as ordered to the common good, not to private will. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-de-regno-limited
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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