POLC73H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Government Debt, Social Science, Jewish Question
24 Feb 2015
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Causes and motivation towards political modernity: better sense of the enlightenment (17th - 18th centuries, sets background to modernization. Three revolutions in the 19th century: french revolution, industrial revolution, democratic revolution, how the idea of modernity transforms the idea of political thought. In the state universal public interests are defined and realized. Rousseau- when it acts according to the general will. The french revolution: first step towards political modernity, why did it happen, intellectual influences in enlightenment political theory (rationalist idea we need to break through the past) but also socioeconomic considerations. Government powers are always derivative of the nation: constituent power- constitute create, and make a government, constituted power- government or political authority created by nation is defined by the constitution created by the nation. Two ways a nation can be represented: ordinary representation- representation according to a constitution, extraordinary representation: representation only at pleasure of a nation.
