HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: First Continental Congress, Small Government, Unanimous Consent
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Internal revolution lecture: timeline revisited, 1774: first continental congress, 1775: revolutionary war begins (external revolution) Battle of bunker hill: (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:889)(cid:888): thomas paine"s common sense & declaration of )ndependence, 1777: articles of confederation written, 1781: british surrender at yorktown, articles approved, 1781-1789: confederation period. After declaring independence, americans had to figure out their government and social structure, which became known as the (cid:498))nternal revolution(cid:499: three kinds of liberty. Revolutionary war external revolution: self-government in america. Self-government, government is voluntary: rejected (cid:498)divine right of kings(cid:499) Social contract - (cid:498)we give up some rights so government protects all the others(cid:499: the people, not god, create government, right of revolution, no monarch will ever rule america again, liberalism (economic theory) Combined republicanism and liberalism toward religious freedom: as opposed to divine right degree at all, natural laws should govern the economy invisible hand into the economy and messing with it. People don"t need government reaching its long: laws (cid:498))nvisible (and(cid:499)
