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| THe cycle from tyranny to anarchy, to which sovereign power and its ill effects give rise. |
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| Removing tyranny from power. |
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| absolute power centralized in one person |
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| no one person maintains absolute power. mass disorder caused by failure to agree on common action |
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| author of The Republic which extolled civic virtue and the necessity of arete (excellence, being the best) |
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| ruling by sanction higher than stark necessity |
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| claimed political legitimacy through a divine right of kings |
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| political theory that royal lines are established by God that kings rule by divine decree. |
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| divinely inspired rule or rule by religion |
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| rule based on distinguished or wise ancestors and heritage |
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| fundamental disposition that determines humans behavior. |
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| philosophical movement that proposed individual self-interest as motivating factor in human behavior. |
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| People are like children and need direction from the government. More gov't and corruptible human nature |
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| men are not corrupt, but corruptible, and can be taught correct moral values. Less gov't and essentially good. |
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| Human nature is variable, but individual freedom should be the gov'ts goal. Less gov't and corruptible. |
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| Gov't protects people from corrupt institutions. More gov't and essentially good |
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| First ten amendments to the constitution regarding basic protections of rights from the gov't. (freedom of speech and religion) |
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| 3rd pres. principal author of declaration. founding father. promoted classical liberalism, republicanism, and the separation of church and state. |
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| structure, participation, law, leadership, moral sense, custom and tradition, founding myths. |
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| Jamestown, motivated by self-interest. |
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| land-owners would pay the passage for people to come to colonies in exchange for a term of service. |
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| cultivated tobacco as profitable agriculture. |
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| Pilgrims, mostly public virtue. based on religious or moral values. |
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| demanded separation from the church of england. |
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| religious emigrants who wanted to reform the church of england rather than sever all ties with it. |
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| taught that the bible was the final authority for matter of faith and that salvation came through. grace only. taught that god has already chosen those who will be saved. |
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| known for sermon a model of christian charity in which he sated that the puritan colony would be a city upon a hill. |
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| Calvin. people should pursue a calling in some sort of worldly work where they are to rise early in the morning, word, save their money, and invest it wisely. prosperity indicated god's approval. |
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| puritan ideal that all must live a righteous life largely on their own, with each man responsible for his won actions and those of his family. |
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| where people did only that which was good and be an example to the world. |
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| only free to do that which is good, just, and honest. |
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| encouraged natural rights. and wrote the second treatise of gov't |
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| true political authority comes not form God or precedent but from the people. |
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| England's first political party, organized in political opposition to the King. |
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| John Adams. determined whether a particular law supported freedom or not. Generality (don't single people out), prospectivity (apply to future action part of publicity), publicity (laws must be known), consent (accepted by people), due process (law is upheld and enforced with consistency) |
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| reflects our innate sense of right and wrong. |
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| rights granted by nature that gov't can't abrogate and gov't is bound to protect |
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| stockpiled gold and silver for the economic power of a nation. |
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| the allocation of resources is heavily controlled by gov't instead of free market forces. |
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| all trade had to go through british or colonial merchants and be shipped in british or colonial ships with the end goal to generate large exports from england. |
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| free market economy in which the gov't serves only to create an acceptable environment in which to make exchanges. |
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| adam smith criticized mercantilism and proposed a free market economy in which the invisible hand determined prices. |
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| individual self-interest regulate the economy. |
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| price rises, supply rises. |
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| as price rises, buy less. |
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| prices determine the quantity of goods supplied |
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| as profits increase, the more suppliers there becomes. |
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| taxation without representation |
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| rallying cry of the colonists cause of the taxes placed on them by a parliament in which they had no representation. |
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| designed to give the british east india trade company a monopoly on tea in the colonies. |
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| 'give me liberty or give me death' pushed for a bill of rights to be added to the constitution. |
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| reps from the british north american colonies who met to respond to england's intolerable acts. |
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| declaration of independence |
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| desire and intention of the american colonies to break ties with britain due to in the injustices by king george III |
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| wrote common sense (convinced colonists about the necessity to fight against britain and to become independent) |
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| led continental army to victory over britain in the revolutionary war. 1st, 1789. Father of his Country. |
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