POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Mercantilism, Scientific Method, Feudalism
21 Jan 2014
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Monday september 16 2013 has not always been a nation state throughout history: classical antiquity: Originated many of the terms we use in political science today: democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship, republic, senate, citizen. Feudalism society of ascription and inequality reciprocal obligations between the nobility and the serfs serfs: peasants tied to the land - in europe papal authority starts to become undermined and under duress. Emergence of new economic relations exploration followed by mercantilism. 2 reason of state changes - power of state no longer depends just on territory but the on productive capacity of the people freeing up land and resources: made over into owners of capital and labour. Protestant reformation 1517 a challenge to ecclesiastical authority: man"s relationship to god not mediated by the church but direct. Treaty of westphalia 1648 emergence of secular authority and national sovereignty overthrew papal authority recognized each state as having sovereign domestic authority with which other states in treaty could not interfere.
