POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Sacred King, Social Relation, Collective Consciousness
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A glorious revolution ends nearly 4 years of roman catholic rule in. England (see 1688), and the war of the league of augsburg pits protestant. Europe and much of catholic europe against france"s louis xiv. Bill of rights, 1689 one of the fundamental instruments of constitutional law among other things, it gave inviolable civil and political rights to the people and political supremacy to parliament. 1789 great french revolution: fraternity, equality, and liberty. The advocacy of constitutional government, i. e. of government channeled through and limited by a constitution. The major current of western political thought in the 17th and 18th centuries was constitutionalist, and included. Hobbes, locke, montesquieu, and the founding fathers of the us. Citizenry (citizen vs. subject american and french revolutions. Political: vote, be elected, speech, assembly, worship, be protected by the law social: welfare protection, education, labor laws, 930 althing (iceland) 1215 magna carta (united kingdom)