HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tyrant, Townshend Acts, Origins Game Fair
20 Nov 2016
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Stamp act: big financial burden, the profit was going back to england. Ideological origins of the american revolution -- revolution of the elite. Power: dominion, aggressive nature, natural in origins, necessary, legitimate, result of government. Lessons on power: standing armies, constitution, vigilant. Conspiracy: stamp act, 1765, townshend acts, 1767, independence of judiciary, 1768, army in boston, 1768. Power = the dominion of some men over others. Twice he chose and rejected the word power. Propulsive tendency to expand itself beyond legitimate boundaries. Commonly used the notion of trespass; its encroaching nature. Obsessed with finding ways to express that idea. Because its natural prey -- its necessary victim. One is to be defended, the other resisted, and they could never be confused. When government formed from mutual consent, some people handed power. To be used for the good of society. Out of a state of nature humans created government. Government to serve as trustees of power.
