SOSC 2350 Chapter Notes -Absolute Monarchy, Class Conflict, Antinomy
31 Oct 2013
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Contribution of locke: second treatise of government. Who shaped the modern rule of law: locke and montesquieu. Country with longest running tradition of rule of law: england. Thomas hobbes talks about: liberalism and rule of law. Thomas initiated: social construct tradition that was developed by locke. Liberals categorize hobbes as a: liberal thinker. Only right individuals pertain during sovereign is: to resist the sovereign if they are threatened with death. Less then absolute sovereign would: have an uncertainty of the state of nature by encouraging challenges to authority, defeating the purpose of the arrangement. Order in a sovereign will result when: everyone bows before a single acknowledged power holder who answers to no other higher force. According to hobbes a sovereign can be bound by: law. Hobbes defined law as: the command of the sovereign. The creator of the law cannot be limited by the law because: the law may b altered at the law makers will.
