POL_SC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Military Intelligence, Montesquieu
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Legitimacy: people"s participation develops democracy and the growth of democracy. 2. social contract a) addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual: locke. 1. representative democracy a) b) indirect form of democracy elected officials speak for the people: wrote about executive power. 3. influenced the idea that government has to be moral and if it"s not, the people have to right to overthrow the government: montesquieu. French: madison and the other framers of government wanted to prove him wrong. 3. representative democracy (republic) only work for small nations: madison and the others wanted to sell the government to the people who were influenced by. Montesquieu a) allowed the people to explain how the government would work. 5. unjust governments have the right to be overthrown. Elements necessary for a democracy to be legitimate: personal liberty. 1. citizens have the right to choose to support causes in government.
