This form of government still exists in countries today. The theoretical construct was based in absolute materialism. ... He stated that God must exist and his beliefs were based on ordinary sense experience. ... The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come". 5 Perfectionism is the treatment of persons based on the notion that some are higher in the chain of being. ... The government system in this country was birthed in Rousseau's concepts of demoracy, individual rights, and limited government. ...

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Though created by men living in a society that was driven mostly by Christian morals, the American Constitution of 1787, as amended by the Bill of Rights, established a system of government in which religious liberty was to be protected. ... The presence of a religious clergy in political matters too greatly represented the form of government in Great Britain, that which revolutionaries had been so adamant to leave behind. ... Called by critics the "enemy of all religion," Jefferson attempted to reconcile Christianity with the Enlightenment.17 Frank Lambert rightly concluded that though the "...

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As a political protest opposing to the Townshend Act, which placed new duties on various imports, members of a Patriotic organization named "Sons of Liberty" disguised as American Indians and destroyed a total of 42,009.9 kilograms of tea on December 16, 1773.viii Patriots clearly demonstrated their dissatisfaction toward the British government. ... The temporary power vacuum in Quebec after the Treaty of Paris had caused some instability in the society, but the British soon implemented a representative government in Quebec successfully.x The habitants were content with the British r...

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A Comparison of the State of Nature between: Hobbes, Leviathan & Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government Final Draft The state of nature is a traditional starting point for many political thinkers attempting to develop, from the natural state of man, some theory about society and politics. ... In the Leviathan and the Second Treatise of Civil Government, Hobbes and Locke, respectively, both ground their political philosophies at the same location: the state of nature, meaning the natural condition of mankind prior to any artifice such as government. ...

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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is t...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ... A child of the Enlightenment and advanced in the ranks by the revolution, Napoleon strove to create a meritocracy, a domestic syst...

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