The deficit spending was such that the government was spending more money than its taxes in from the tax revenues. ... And this caused the tax payers to revolt against the government. ... The countries were then ruled by absolutism that is the total control of the monarch over the government. ... The king would make all the laws and even make decisions regarding wars and peace. ... They were part of the third estate population and they were no more able to be compress under the injustices of the Government. ...

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He also believed that in the case of governments failing to complete its duties, the people under said government had the right to form a new government even through means such as a revolution. ... He looked at the various kinds of government and completed analysis of what made them effective in his book, The Spirit of the Laws. ... It was Rousseau's belief that people could only truly live by laws they made themselves, any other law making processes put the people as victims of someone else's tyranny. ... Smith believed that there was no need to regulate markets because people'...

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The government created "patent laws that allowed inventors to benefit financially from" (page 29) their property such as inventions and idea. ... The ideas of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, government patent laws, and the financial innovations were the main causes of the Industrial Revolution because of their effects. ... Due to these unhealthy and short lives of the young, Child Labor laws were put into effect as of 1883 in Britain. ... The government added laws such as outlawing slavery, limiting child labor, and the "Education Act [that] set up local elementary...

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Georges Lefebvre who was a professor whose prime interest was in the social history, stated: "the Revolution of 1789 restored the harmony between fact and law.""... The abolishment of the feudal governmental system was the acknowledgement of the need to conciliate the peasantry. ... The laws are the same for all French people as legislated by a freely elected assembly and enforced by an independent court system. ... Many of the middle class were jealous of the privileges of the aristocrats, also about the fact that they had no say in the government. ... The French Revolution produced a soci...

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Government, education, legal systems, social events, clothing, and home decor were all governed by the regulations of Puritanism. ... In his 1690 pamphlet, Two Treatises of Government, Locke stated that political sovereignty does not reside in the state, but in the people. He continued saying that the state has power only if governed by true and "natural" law. This concept of "natural" law would prove very significant in future years. ... Philosophers and intellectuals at the time of the Enlightenment strived to discover the laws that rule this orderly universe. ...

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The two began to feel the need for self-rule without the interference of allegedly tyrannical governments. ... The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament during the 17th century were mercantilism translated into statute law. ... Permitting colonial self-rule, Britain gave the American colonies a taste for self-government. However, to the dismay of the assemblies, the British government sought to assert its authority and to restrict narrowly the rights of the colonial assemblies. ... The highest positions in the colonial government, other than that of viceroy, were open to creoles...

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There seemed to be equal treatment under the law as revolutionaries had envisioned, but in reality some of the aspects of the civil code were conservationist and had authoritarian views. ... The revolutionaries had not all envisioned a democracy, but in broader terms a more representative form of government. ... Central and local government was directed by him and officials were expected to implement his policies. ... The Revolution had been characterized by anticlericasm, and for the first time it was felt that the government was above the church. ... Part of the reason for the French revolu...

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Society's general view of government provoked the unstoppable flow of revolutionary political concepts that were implemented throughout the Enlightenment. ... They criticized the methods of the Old Regime and demanded that society be run by natural laws. ... He expanded his ideas regarding government across the nation and bewildered many with the concept of natural rights. ... The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment rearranged the world-view on politics, as it no longer became acceptable for a government to solely dictate the future of its people. ... Deists perceived the world in ...

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Once in session, the Estates-General assumed the powers of the government. ... Education for everyone, especially in the cities, became an important task and many were beginning to accept the idea that we live in a mechanical world ruled by laws of math and science. ... France was an absolute monarchy, which meant that the king held all the power and the people living in the country had no say in the government structure or the activities of the government. ... It also set an example of a government for France to follow with their reforms. ... They were able to resist these reforms due to the ...

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Each category is based on a key aspect of what I think are critical parts to any functional government. ... Political deals with a structure or affairs of the French government. ... A large part of any well-balanced government lies within their politics. ... The nobility held many of the top positions in the government, military, law and higher church offices. ... With a lot of problems in one or more categories, it shows that the government isn't as perfect as thought to be. ...

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This era introduced the idea of self-government to the French public, undermining the complete authority of the monarchies. The theory of self-government and religious tolerance made the French public start questioning the actual authority of the French monarchy. ... After they took power in the Hotel de Ville they formed a new city government called the Commune De Paris. ... The National Assembly was formed as the new government, replacing the monarchy with a democracy. ... On Jun 10, 1794 a law passed that suspended a suspect's right to have a public trial and legal assistance. ...

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"To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would be to London threatened by general arson," writes Melville, in regard to the uprising at the Nore, and he continues: [in] a fleet, the right arm of a Power then all but the sole conservative one of the Old World, the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of founded law and freedom defined, into the enemy's red meteor of unbridled and unbounded revolt. ... As Billy represents the "Revo...

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He talked about the passion of wars, money, layers, laws, and powers, and how the human race uses reasons to handle them. ... Gulliver also talked about the perversion of laws in which the right amount of money can buy a person their rights because lawyers can make "white is black, and black is white." ... Along with laws, Gulliver explained to his Master the system in which tainted officials rise into power through "bribing the majority of a senate or great council." This passion for power obscured the rational use of government. ... The time period that Swift and Racine wrote their story...

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(514 Western Civilization) Man believed that, through reason, we become more aware of the laws of nature and the role it plays in the universe. ... Now, in the 18th century whatever happened to mankind was not the doings of a supreme being but that of natural laws. ... So many lost their lives because they even dared to think for themselves or question the laws of authority. ... Strange as it may sound modern psychologists today use this exact theory in their studies called "cognitive development" Is it safe to say that society today, our government and our constitution are based on the Enli...

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For example, killing is against that law. ... Based on the statements these thinkers, we can determine, or theorize using free thought, that man must have faith in reason in order to control their own fate, or, in Kant's legalistic language, participate in self-government. ...

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