HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Civil Marriage, Levellers, Bicameralism

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 215
• Professor: Sarah Waurechen

Document Summary

Note: when writing about revolution, think about its historicism, its contemporary context, and clearly define it. In 1771 louis xv tried to reform taxation law again (1) the parlements refused to give his change the force of law (2) so louis xv dissolved them (3) public relations quarrel came in. 4: people began seeing the interests of the monarch against those of the people. In 1776 when the american colonies declared themselves independent: they also said they were republican - did not want absolutism b) All men are created equal - life, liberty, pursuit of happiness : embodied enlightenment values of rationality and natural rights, look to american experiment as a model. 4: so people began searching elsewhere for their interests. Radical republicanism: a second revolutionary phase and the terror (1793-1794) 2. recognizes the oppressive character of 18th c. french nobility: class conflict - from marx, embraces the notion of periodicity : 2 phases.