POT 2002 Lecture : Introduction to Political Theory [COMPLETE NOTES PART 4] - got a 4.0 in the course!
9 Apr 2014
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Consultation with parliament merely a formality: james understands that some people believe the house of lords and house of commons [parliament], so he defends his stance theoretically but doesn"t try to implement it institutionally, his son, charles i, presses the claim, puritans wanted to purify england of remaining catholic sentiment, cromwell rules during interregnum period after charles" execution, shaftesbury and locke try to craft legislation called the exclusion bill, that would prevent catholic james from becoming king, exclusion bill fails, james becomes first catholic king of ireland since henry viii eventually pushed out by william of orange, who marries mary, and they restore protestantism. Before civil/political society is created: the social contract, natural law, mechanism of free and voluntary agreement whereby we leave the state of nature and create civil/political society, gd"s law, series of moral precepts that humans can understand with their reason, and use that reason to construct a political world based on those principles.
