POL_SC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Charismatic Authority, Supremacy Clause, Vagueness
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Thomas hobbes: government should have limit on powers they exercised and that political systems are based on the idea of contract theory . The contract theory says that the people if a country voluntarily give up sine freedom in exchange for an ordered society. John locke: people retain their rights despite the social contract with the monarch, people"s lives, liberty, and property also require protection. Montesquieu: power needed to be balanced by power as a bulwark against tyranny, basic functions to be separated from parliament and monarch but some overlap of function. Articles of confederation: usa first written constitution in november of 1777, limited the powers of the central government. Congress were given the powers to: declare war and make peace, to make treaties and alliances, to coin or borrow money, to regulate trade with the native americans. Confederation: a system of government in which states retain sovereign authority except for the powers expressly delegated to the national government.
