POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Soft Despotism, Aristocracy, Jacksonian Democracy
21 Mar 2017
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Sieyes state is supposed to be something, currently nothing, aspires to be something. The old regime is applied retroactively, as the ancient regime. Notion of a break in time created by revolution time dated from here on out. 1789 old to new regime and the american revolution. American revolution is unclear on the fundament change. Fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e"s re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) (cid:449)as (cid:373)ore epo(cid:272)hal a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t. Anything away from the nation holds no liability. Undifferentiated people are collectively represented in the republic. Difference in regulation and representation: eg. us elections are by corporate body by the state. Allegiance to other religious groups are allowed however. Nobility of poland and identification as a separate ethnic group. France: those who represent the nation should be of the nation. Nation derived from fundamental equality: from this is a claim of universality in citizen, universality yields unity, winning implies a loser loss = tocqueville. Tocqueville: noble des payee, history vacuum of power when the king died.
