Machiavelli

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The New Prince enacts a radical political innovation with uncontrolled consequences (in time), that subverts the structure of ancient custom and usage by which the (established order) [previously existing political order] had been legitimized, and consequently exposes the Prince (him) to an ascendancy of fortuna.