POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rank, European Cooperation In Science And Technology, Assembly Of Notables
28 Aug 2018
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Lecture 8-10
Nov. 8 2016,
• PROMINENT PPL SHOULD RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE
• THIS CULTURAL CLIMATE COULD BE DEFINED AS DEFERENCE
• TO GIVE IN TO HIGH STANDING PPL’S WILL
• PROMINENT PPL HENCE NO CONTEST AGAINST ELECTIONS
• “I WILL DEFER TO THEIR JUDGEMENT”
• DISTINCTION PRINCIPLE
• ELECTION CONSISTS OF DISTANCE, TRAVEL, PG A RICH MAN’S PURSUIT
• AS OF 1710, IN ENGLAND, PROPERTY OWNERSHIP WAS A REQUIREMENT.
• THE EXISTENCE OF PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS IS THE VIEW OF THE
GRANDEES AT PUTNY
• FIXED INTEREST IN THE LAND; A EUPHEMISM FOR PROPERTY OWNERSHIP
• IN FRANCE, PRINCIPLE OF DISTINCTION ENFORCED A DIFF WAY.
• TWO CATEGORIES OF CITIZENS
• FIRST PHASE OF REVOLUTION
• “ACTIVE CITIZENS AND PASSIVE CITIZENS”
• TO BE AN ACITVE CITIZEN, MUST PAY 3 DAYS WORTH OF WAGES TO
QUALIFY
• THOSE WHO DIDN’T FELL INTO PASSIVE CITIZENS
• THOSE UNDER THE INFLUENE AND CONROL OF OTHERS ALSO FELL INTO
THIS CATEGORY. CHILDREN, WOMEN, MONKS ETC
• DEEMED AS PROGRESSIVE CONCEPTION OF CITIZENSHIP
• WIDENING THE SCOPE OF THOSE PERMITTED TO PARTAKE IN FRENCH
POLITICAL LIFE
• PASSIVE CITIZENS STILL ENJOYED THE CIVIL RIGHTS
• THE DISTINCTION PRINCIPLE ATTEMPTED TO WITHDRAW PUBLIC OFFICE
FROM THOSE WHO DIDN’T HAVE FIXED INTEREST
• OWN LAND AND PAY 500 DAYS OF WAGES’ TAXES, MARC D’ARGENT
• RESTRICT THAT FUNCTION OF OFFICE RUNNING TO WEALTHY
• WEALTHY FORGED THESE REQUIREMENTS
• THIS DECISION TO ENFORCE PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS WAS MET WITH
UNPOPULARITY BY THOSE CLOSE TO REVOLUTION
• THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESSURES INTO DROPPING THESE
REQUIREMENTS
• TWO TIERS OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM. A REFORMATION.
• ONLY MOST WEALTHY AND VIRTOUS TO RUN FOR ELECTIONS
• INDIRECT ELECTIONS
• FIRST TIER CONSISTED OF; FOR EVERY 100 CITIZEN, ONE PERSON ELECTED
TO VOTE FOR REPS IN THE ASSEMBLY
• 40 DAYS WORTH OF WAGES FOR THE REPS?
• SO THIS HAPPENED POST REVOLUTION?
• THE DISTINCTION PRINCIPLE IN U.S
• SUMMER OF 1787; THE PHILADALPHIA CONVENTION WILL NEGOTIATE THE
SUBSTANCE AND TERMS OF THE DISTINCTION PRINCIPLE
• AT THESE DEBATES, CONSENSUS THAT PROPERTY OWNSERSHIP WAS THE
WAY
• DELEGATES BELIEVED THAT PROPERTY OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL RANK A
PRIORITY
• JAMES MADDISSON, POLITICAL POWER BE GRANTED TO THOSE HAVE
MOST VIRTUE AND WISDOM
• ALEXANDER HAMILTON EXPLICITILY LINK PERSONAL VIRTUE TO FINANCIAL
WEALTH 120 PG
• CLAIMS THERE IS A CASUAL LINK
• THE ABSENCE OF THESE REQUIREMENTS IN THE CONSTITUTION.
EXPIEDENCE WAS THE REASON. THE DELEGATES COULDN’T DEFINE THE IN
AND OUTS
• LARGE ELECTORAL DISTRICTS HAVE A TENDENCY TO VOTE PPL OF GENERAL
RESPECTIVBILITY AND PROBABLE OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY; IDES BY
MADDISON
• EXPERIENCE SHOWED THAT LARGE ELECTORAL DISTRICTS USUALLY
SELECTED THESE KIND OF PPL
• WHY DID ELECTORAL DISTRICTS CHOOSE THESE TYPE OF PPL?
• IF YOU R RUNNING FOR A LARGE DISTRICT, =EXPENSIVE
HARD TO GET YOURSLEF KNOWN
COMMON CORE WAS THAT PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS WERE TO BE DIFF
THAN COMMON CITIZEN
• DIFF IN VIRTUE, WEALTH, RANK
• STILL DEMOCRATIC CUZ OFFICE HOLDERS STILL ELECTED AND
ACCOUNTABLE
• UNDERGOING ELECTORAL TEST
• DISTINCTION PRINCIPLE THERE TO RESERVE OFFICE THE “BEST”
• BY THE 20TH CENTURY, WEALTH REQUIREMENTS DISPOSED
• RIGHT TO VOTE WIDENED
• THESE TWO PRIVILGES WILL NOT MODIFY THE FACT THAT THE ELECTORAL
SYSTEM ITSELF WILL NOT GIVE EQUAL ACCESS TO EVERYONE
• THAT’S WHY A DEMOCRATIC ARISTOCRACY SHOULD BE THE TERM
• 133,
• 4 REASONS WHY ELECTIONS ARE ARISTOCRATIC
• VOTERS DO NOT TREAT CANDIDATES IN EQUAL FASHION
• IN A SITUATION OF CHOICE. CANDIDATES MUST BE DISTINGUISHED
• HUMANS TEND TO GIVE ADVANTAGE TO SAILIENCE
• COST OF SPREADING INFO
• WHEN WE CAST A BALLOT, WE ARE NOT OBLIGED TO CONSIDER FAIRLY
• ALL BIASES CAN FACTOR IN
• NO WAY TO ENSURE EQUAL CONSIDERATION
• VOTERS MUST FIND THEIR CANDIDATE A DISTINCT CHARACTERSTIC,
• IF AL CANDIDATES HAD SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS, THEY COULD BE
EXCHANGEABLE
• ELECTION ENCOURAGES UNIQUENESS
• COGNITIVE CONSTRAINT, SALIENCE, NOTABLE IMPORTANCE,
• INDIVIDUALS WHO STAND OUT, WE THEN CHOOSE THEM
• SALIENCE IS RELATIVE TO SOCIETY
• BECAUSE SALIENCE WILL AFFECT THE CHOICE OF VOTERS, THIS WILL
REINFORCE DISTINCTION PRINCIPLE
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• 101,
NOV 15, 2016
• 2 OF 3 QUESTIONS
• NEXT WEEK 3RD QS
• PADEIA; EDUCATION
• CASTORIADIS
• DAVID REMINICK; AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Document Summary
Qualify: those who didn"t fell into pa ive citizen , those under the influene and conrol of others also fell into. Children, women, monks etc: deemed as progressive conception of citizenship, widening the scope of those permitted to partake in french. Political life: passive citizens still enjoyed the civil rights, the distinction principle attempted to withdraw public office. Unpopularity by those close to revolution: the national assembly pressures into dropping these. A reformation: only most wealthy and virtous to run for elections, indirect elections, first tier consisted of; for every 100 citizen, one person elected. To vote for reps in the assembly: 40 days worth of wages for the reps, so this happened post revolution, the distinction principle in u. s, summer of 1787; the philadalphia convention will negotiate the. Substance and terms of the distinction principle: at these debates, consensus that property ownsership was the. Way: delegates believed that property ownership and social rank a.
