The movement was based on compassion, commitment, and anger at injustice. ... The government was not representing the citizens properly. ... A government that does not reflect the will of the people must be removed from power. ... History shows us that the citizens have the ultimate power and make up the government. ... Since we, the people, make up the government it is our responsibility to ensure our government represents our interests and if not, dealt with in whatever manner necessary to ensure our rights and freedoms are respected and protected from a corrupt government....

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The revolutionaries agreed that life, liberty, and property should be considered natural rights, emphasizing property as a main source of inequality among man, and constructed new governments based on popularized Enlightenment ideas. ... Rousseau argued that man and government were both good in nature, but were corrupted and made cruel by institutions, and that there would be no liberty without a good government protecting it. An ideal government in America included a bicameral legislature, a written constitution, and a chief officer who is elected, held to the same laws as citizens, and can...

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All this injustices can be stated to have taken place as during that era, people gave a lot of importance to the French king who was believed to have divine powers such that the society was based on an ascribe status. ... The deficit spending was such that the government was spending more money than its taxes in from the tax revenues. ... And this caused the tax payers to revolt against the government. ... The countries were then ruled by absolutism that is the total control of the monarch over the government. ... They were part of the third estate population and they were no more able to be c...

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During this time, there was a great amount of indecision over how to construct this new government to provide a stable structure on which to build the United States of America. ... The Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson, favored a democratic government run by the "common" people with little power granted to centralized government. They believed to ensure this, the economy should be based on agriculture and small amounts of commerce. ... Republicans felt the French were right to revolt against their oppressors and try to establish a democratic government. ... Led by Alexander Hamilton and Joh...

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The two began to feel the need for self-rule without the interference of allegedly tyrannical governments. ... Precedents were established during this period, which the colonists later flung at the English government when it attempted to restore its authority in America. ... Permitting colonial self-rule, Britain gave the American colonies a taste for self-government. However, to the dismay of the assemblies, the British government sought to assert its authority and to restrict narrowly the rights of the colonial assemblies. ... The highest positions in the colonial government, other than t...

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One of the most important changes in the French Revolution was the shift in government from absolutism to a constitutional Monarchy. ... This new shift in government limited much of the King's power and gave every citizen a voice. ... This marked the end to exemption from taxation, freedom, and equal rights for all men in access to public office based on talent, not status. ... One of the changes that this group benefited from is the shift in government to a Constitutional Monarchy, ending absolutism. ... They now had a fair chance based on talent, not rank in society. ...

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Once in session, the Estates-General assumed the powers of the government. ... France was an absolute monarchy, which meant that the king held all the power and the people living in the country had no say in the government structure or the activities of the government. ... Using ideas of the Enlightenment the American Revolution set up a government based on equality. ... It also set an example of a government for France to follow with their reforms. ... French society was based, not around classes, but around the system of estates. ...

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Modern meaning how our natural rights are affected by government and also how human life can become affected. ... Also in past governments, many people just went with the flow of Europe being an absolute power of government because many were too frightened to say anything, meaning that they didn't want to be beheaded or banned from the country. ... Based on this quote Rousseau is agreeing with Locke saying that no human should be forced to give up their natural rights to their king. The social contract was basically a belief that a government only exists to serve the will of the people. ...

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Hobbes based his theories on the government on his beliefs than men were greedy, selfish, and cruel. ... Voltaire thought freedom of speech was the best weapon against a bad government. ... In order to do that, the government had to allow people to have natural rights which cannot be restrained by human laws, customs, or beliefs of any type of government. ... During the revolutionary period, Adams wrote Thoughts on Government (1775) which discussed governmental structure that would involve teamwork and unite the people. ... He believed the destiny of the republican government lied in the hands...

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Cunningham and Flew highlight a basic power struggle between people, the government and our media system which they recognize to have a "strong corporatist flavour" (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237). ... They view it as a non-commercial "peoples" network based in a commercial environment on modernist institutions which therefore leads to culture being formed into a commodity, allowing it to be bought and sold. ... Their perspective is contrary to Hobbes however, whose belief is that it is in fact the people who delegate power to these institutions (that is, the private, public and government ...

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Principle goals of the Enlightenment included freedom of thought, religion, political liberties and governments representative of the people. Over a vast period of time, revolutionary governments were created according to ration, liberty, and equality. ... The task of writing a Declaration and proposing it to King Louis XVI, was far more difficult than starting a government from fresh as the Americans did. ... The first point says, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; social distinctions may be based only upon general usefulness" (175). ...

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If the governing body is wise they will allow it's legislative and judicial system of government to express the social thought of the day to a certain extent. ... The Enlightenment, which was the offspring of the Scientific Revolution(SR), took intellectual thought from theologically based beliefs of how the world functioned to empirical research(which was a process developed during the SR) and the development of Natural Laws that explained logically how the world, man and Society functioned. ... The British government took a Laissez-faire approach to government but still in yet attempt...

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Aristocracy created social classes; it put people in different groups based on education, ability, wealth, and social prestige. ... This obviously caused a lot of problems for people outside the ruling government so people began to revolt against their governments and started making their own reform movements so they could see a more equal and stable way of life. ... Candide's mother was not able to consider marrying a man because of love, but instead, she was forced to base her decisions on money matters and social standing. ... If there were no aristocratic system of government in ...

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However, the concomitant attempt to bring about an ideal humanistic system (based on Enlightenment thought), most nearly attempted in Scandinavia, has fallen short of fruition. ... Thus, his teleological (ends-based) philosophy is called a science of ends. ... Rome offered the world's first mixed government; that is, a senate, consuls, council, and tribunes. ... He lists four reasons we left the natural state to enter into a society with government. ... A legislative government is made by a contract among the citizens, with direct representative legislature and the consent of the go...

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Society's general view of government provoked the unstoppable flow of revolutionary political concepts that were implemented throughout the Enlightenment. ... He expanded his ideas regarding government across the nation and bewildered many with the concept of natural rights. ... The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment rearranged the world-view on politics, as it no longer became acceptable for a government to solely dictate the future of its people. The denotation of a government was redefined, as society demanded the liberties they needed to mark their presence on the globe and live...

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By telling the story of an innocent young man's journey in a corrupt and evil world, Voltaire shows the faults of society, especially the government and the church, that were being questioned at the time of The Enlightenment. ... One major target that Voltaire satirizes upon in Candide is the government and the nobility of the period in which the novel was written. ... The government used Philosophical Optimism, so people would think everything would turn out for the better. ... Voltaire could explain that the church is supposed to be an institution that is based on morality and ethics; ...

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There was death for a narrowly defined ideal of republican Liberty based upon a concept of collective political authority. ... For both men, genuine liberty was found in a community based on tradition and right reason. ...

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Each category is based on a key aspect of what I think are critical parts to any functional government. ... Political deals with a structure or affairs of the French government. ... A large part of any well-balanced government lies within their politics. ... The nobility held many of the top positions in the government, military, law and higher church offices. ... With a lot of problems in one or more categories, it shows that the government isn't as perfect as thought to be. ...

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The poor class of people had no rights and was not allowed to participate in the government. ... This started the government rampage in which anyone who was thought to oppose the revolution was thrown in jail and eventually killed. " "He is a traitor since the decree. ... Anybody who publicly spoke against the government was sent to jail. ... Some of the characters in A Tale of Two Cities are based on real people that played a major part of the revolution. Monsieur Defarge was actually based on a person called Lafarge. ...

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The French society was highly based on social standing and occupation. ... This era introduced the idea of self-government to the French public, undermining the complete authority of the monarchies. ... After they took power in the Hotel de Ville they formed a new city government called the Commune De Paris. ... The National Assembly was formed as the new government, replacing the monarchy with a democracy. ... The French revolution is a clear example of the repercussions of a revolution based out of fear and hatred....

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The French Revolution provided the world with its first meaningful experience of political ideology, and hence brought many governmental changes, social changes and the theme of nationalism. ... The abolishment of the feudal governmental system was the acknowledgement of the need to conciliate the peasantry. ... Many of the middle class were jealous of the privileges of the aristocrats, also about the fact that they had no say in the government. ... French revolutionaries proclaimed the universality of those ideals, "all human beings, not just the French people have basic rights that must ...

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Human cruelty was to be overcome by the use of social improvements and government structures. ... Their goals were based around the idea of progress by mastering the natural sciences and the human sciences. ... Voltaire's drive for an empirical philosophy that would base all human certainty on empirical verification was a success in becoming the basis for French empirical science. ... Voltaire's work was based on the belief "that human society could and should be improved" (pg. 639) and in effect was a success of the Enlightenment. ... As the mothers raised their children, the c...

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The revolutionaries had not all envisioned a democracy, but in broader terms a more representative form of government. ... Central and local government was directed by him and officials were expected to implement his policies. ... The Revolution had been characterized by anticlericasm, and for the first time it was felt that the government was above the church. ... His regime introduced limits on grain exports (due to poor harvests) in 1811 and placed price limits on bread and grain in 1812, much like the revolutionary governments such as "The Assembly " and "The Convention " . ... He mainta...

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The British thought that there should be one central government, Parliament, which would be the supreme authority. ... Another major cause of the French Revolution was the near collapse of government finances. ... The teachings of 18th-century French philosophers and continental writers on law, such as Emmerich de Vattel, as well as the theories of John Locke, were implicit in the colonial arguments based on the theory of natural rights. ...

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According to Barnett, also states that "its aim has been to begin to illustrate the problems inherent in the history of lighting too based on the discourses of enlightened elite, because in most cases, his writings had little impact on changing religious and reform "(Barnett 6). talk about "why the myth of a deist movement has remained important for Enlightenment studies, even when the evidence [offered] was [significantly] insufficient" (Barnett 7). ... As burnett underlines "... uncovering the disputable nature of the test that radical Catholics - Jansenists - progressed against the Roman Ch...

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