POLS 1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zero Dark Thirty, French Revolution, Constitutionalism
5 Sep 2018
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Government as a problem: the american solution, cont"d. Kavanaugh will likely be appointed, but democrats are fighting for midterm brownie points. The four mechanisms which governments use to make the people obey (four noble lies: nationalism. U. s. military assistance in producing motion pictures, Gov"t lended them real space suits and equipment. Separation of church and state is extremely weak. Marxist russia (ussr) (which was atheist) used archbishop of moscow to make people fight nazis: participation and representation. People must feel like they"re represented in gov"t. U. s. established elections in iraq: constitutionalism. The constitution was born out of our mythology. The british gov"t was one of the most benevolent at the time. The war culminated in a great american victory. No way to know or decide god"s influence. The revolution was a shining beacon for the rest of the world. We were a tiny country with very few people.
