POLI SCI 201 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 Notes
11 Oct 2016
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The glorious revolution took place 1688 in which the english parliament deposed the. Catholic king with a deal that the new king and parliament would allow for a bill of. Two treatise of government published anonymously in 1689. The first treatise is concerned with critiquing the idea of the divine rights of kings. A central concern of both treatise is the critique of the idea of political power as an extension of paternal power. Unless god declares someone one should be ruling. One does not have the right to destroy others or property. A belief in god prevents people from going around destroying things. "be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders. The law of nature is in everyone"s hands.
