One way in which President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus (1861), the Espionage Act (1917), and the USA Patriot Act (2001) are similar is that these actions

the hereditary right of a monarch to rule from the mandate of heaven

in 550 b.c.e. cyrus the great, the leader of the persians, conquered the medes and united the iranian people under one ruler for the first time. cyrus became the first king of the persian empire and went on to establish one of the largest empires in world.

north atlantic treaty organization.