POLS 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enumerated Powers, Seneca Falls Convention, Commerce Clause
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Men"s move from perfect freedom to civil government with legislative and executive power. Popular sovereignty, consent of the governed, protections and limitations of property, problems inherent in absolute monarchy, and the ability to dissolve gov without trust. The information has been lost in history, and everyone has equal claim to his power and inheritance. Political theory of patriarchalism, the divine right of kings (it is argued that god gave adam the divine authority over the world, but locke disagreed, saying that it was impossible to find adam"s heirs. All men exist in a state of perfect freedom and equality, and they cannot be limited by other men. Only god is able to bestow some advantage in power over another man, and if a man wants to satisfy his needs he will. A man must respect other men"s lives, health, liberty and possessions. Three things that influence american thought: liberal tradition (classic liberalism, not contemporary ideology, republican (cid:498)(cid:499, religious/biblical (cid:498)(cid:499)