Political Science 1 - Notes

June 17, 2003

Due on Monday 23rd

50 points One page report “How I perceive Government Effecting my Life”.

100 points Research documents

Popular sovereignty - Rule by popular rule

Roman empire anything but democratic. An empire made of a number of ethnic groups c
Controlled by an elite

Western Europe reduced to Feudalism and manorialism era termed Middle ages 476 AD – 1420 AD

Land and people controlled by regional nobles-dukes, counts earls no centralized government - - many attempts

What little culture and scholarship remained in the universal church (Catholic Church) much of it was lost with the fall of Rome in 476AD.

Primary diet - cabbage,

Renaissance – Rebirth 1420-
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Treaty of Augsburg 1555, religion of a nation decided by the monarch.

Treaty of Westphalia – ending the thirty years war in northern reinforced thtthe monarch deciding religion of a nation regardless the conscience of the individual.

Absolutism - Leviathan individual is sole owner of self, labor and goods

Mankind is best served as a collective.

Governments should be limited – social contract

Limited government

Social Contract
Popular Soveignty
Natural rights
Limited government
Second treatise
Athenian Republic
John locke
Thomas hobbes
Martin luther
Erasmus Rotterdam
Renaissance
3 Forms of Government
Autocracy
Oligarchy
Democracy
3 Means of Governance
Authoritarian
Totalitarian
Constitutional

Economic and Political Causes of the American Revolution

Settlement
Original European settlers were the flotsam of English Society
Catholics Puritan separatists Quakers debtors, poor, - discriminated against
Puritans – got the name cause they wanted to purge the idolatry and rituals of the catholic church.

Plymouth compact – Mayflower compact 180 people got together (men) and formed a document to govern themselves.

All states had governors appointed by th eCrown, the Proprietor, or elected in the case of Rhoed Island and Connecticut

Bicameral legislatures

Reality states retained power to themselves

Coined own money
Maintained own armies
Levied taxes

National Judiciary
Part of congress appointive committee with power to arbitratr
Charles Beard argued in his sifnificant work Economic interpretation fot eh constitituion. Constitutional that the farmer wer motivated by little more than economic gain.
Their Actions were self-serving wand were vital in retainingas well as icreasing their own wealth

In a sens ther actions were self sevina as these actions would

In a sens thei actions were self serving as thes actions would help create conditions which would allow