FYSM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Judiciary, French Revolution, Tyrant
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Week 4 - september 28 - the bourgeois revolution. Declaration of independence and bill of rights pg. The power of government is derived from the consent of those governed. An unjust government is one which is destructive to the collective individual rights of those governed and it is thereby the right of the people to abolish it. The americans claimed britain to be a ruling tyrant and not representative of those whom it governed, and used this document to claim legitimate revolution of this system. Goal to separate from britain and diminish government intervention, i. e. / a political revolution. What authority: they claim the authority as representatives of the united states of. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define as tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of the free people : some injustices cited: Refused to pass laws unless people relinquish their right of representation in the legislature.