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Life, liberty, property
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17th Century
power should be a check of power
three branches |
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17th Century
Wrote the Leviathan
Believed the human nature was evil
wanted an absolute ruler |
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| people should give up freedoms for the common good |
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| reason, nature, happiness, progress, liberty; limitation of government |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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Thomas Jefferson wrote it
natural rights, grievances, demand seperation from Britain
reflects the beliefs of John Locke and Montesquieu |
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| US COnstitution and Bill of Rights |
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power/state&national government
to protect freedoms
to protect rights of people freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly |
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| Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen |
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Call for equal justice, freedom of speech, religion
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18th Century
Enlightenment thinkers impacted educated leaders of Revolution |
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18th Century (1789)
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette: bad leaders, big spenders
Debt due to involvement in American Revolution, French Indian War |
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| The French thought the Swiss would massacre 3rd estate; first violent act of the revolution-July 14,1989 |
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Radicals: sweeping changes, no monarchy, left side: Sans-culotte
Moderates: Center, limited monarchy
Conservatives: Emigres, few changes, monarch, right side |
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Headed Jacobin Club and Commitee of Public Safety
-removed all K,Q,J from card decks and replaced them with famous radicals |
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1793- 1794
everyone, no one safe |
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3 big mistakes
Conttinental Sytem
Peninsular war
Russian Invasion |
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| Britain and Prussia beat France |
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| equal power b/w countries, prevent France from having too much power, restore monarchy |
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| land tax on peasants/second class (anybody but 1st class) |
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| talented, educated, skilled middle class men. some want to participate in government but cannot because they are not born into nobility |
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June 20, 1789
Delegates of the third estate made an oath not to disband until the National Assembly had drafted a constitution |
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| don't think they need any type of government at all; they want Louis dead |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| 12 members, led by Robespierre; 2 primary duties: 1. defend France from those who would seek to stop the revolution.. 2. create a ''republic of virtue'' |
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| July 1793-1794; neighbor turns on neighbor; anything said turns against oneself and usually ends up getting them guillotined. most people killed were from the 3rd estate |
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| seizure of power by force |
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| Form of government which followed the directory -established by Napoleon-ended when Napoleon was crowned emperor. |
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| cancels the ''birth'' factor of jobs(just b/c you weren't born in 1st class doesn't mean you can't run for office anymore) |
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| The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime. |
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| French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General, the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. (p. 585) |
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| Expression of the people's will by direct ballot |
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Olympe de Gouge
wrote the "Rights of Women and the Citizen" |
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| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity |
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