[HIST 2110] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 32 pages long Study Guide!
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Political power! political power: role of chief executive prior to 1775. Dictator/kings/feudal lords: wars between leaders for control. In gb parliament has role and some representation. King still supreme his word is law. England still burdened by aristocracy, wealth of industrialization. Thomas hobbes 1588-1679: without government the life of man, (will be) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. , we must make someone sovereign (leviathan) All will obey without question, except if life threatened. State of nature we want to get along, we create governments to help. Natural law unalienable rights (life, liberty, property: when the government acts against the common interest of the people, they have the right to revolt. We have society for our wants, and government for our wickedness. t. paine. Government executed for the good of all, and with the consent of all, is liberty; and the word government is profaned, and its meaning abused, when it signifies anything else.
