HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Fronde
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Richelieu - worked to make his master absolute. This gave the government the ability to do anything to anyone. Always better to serve one master than many. The concentrated power protected the nation far better than before from foreign invasion. These practical elements made it less horrible than it sounded. Justification came from the chaos of the middle ages. 30 years war destroyed to continent, with constant instability. Civil servant that worked for the crown and wrote about the nature of government. He was trying to explain the events of the english civil war. Charles said that god put him there, and therefore he couldn"t be tried by the people. Hobbes realized that the kings arguments were very fragile. State was a monster - nothing in the state can bring it down. In the beginning, men and women were in the state of nature. We were in a state of chaos, which was violent and vicious.
