The only function of government according to this doctrine is to protect life, liberty, and property." ... Turgot's successors, following a mercantilist policy of government intervention, only made the French economy worse. ... We need a government like England's, he said. ... Such confiscation only sets a precedent for further violation of property rights, which in turn violates individual rights, the very rights of man and the citizen the new government was so loudly proclaiming. ... Curriculum was controlled totally by the central government. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Locke was the first to propose the idea that individuals are borne with natural rights prior to the existence of government and it is the government that ought to safeguard those rights. ... Jefferson clearly declared on paper that all men hold certain rights, which the government is obliged to secure and if it fails it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" (14:1) that government. ... There these individuals set out to establish an alternative to the two fixed parties, called the Libertarian party--champion of freedom and personal liberty. ... Well it means more and mor...

• Word Count: 7038
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Though created by men living in a society that was driven mostly by Christian morals, the American Constitution of 1787, as amended by the Bill of Rights, established a system of government in which religious liberty was to be protected. ... The historical roots of Christianity and the Anglican religion in colonial America set the tone for religious debate. ... The presence of a religious clergy in political matters too greatly represented the form of government in Great Britain, that which revolutionaries had been so adamant to leave behind. ... Called by critics the "enemy of all religion," ...

• Word Count: 3342
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He was the first modern theorist to agree for absolute power of government. ... This form of government still exists in countries today. ... People agreed to obey a government if it would protect their natural rights. He set down the policy of checks and balances later followed in the U.S. ... The government system in this country was birthed in Rousseau's concepts of demoracy, individual rights, and limited government. ...

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One such man was James Otis who had a sincere concern for liberty and who believed in man's singular sovereignty, while publicly guarding against the practice of absolutism in government found in England under the rule of Charles II and James II. ... The House of Burgess and Continental Congress representative was instrumental in American history, influencing the colonial grievances with Britain, inciting colonial British disgust, and most certainly his contributions to the newly formed American government. Hancock's involvement with the declaration merely reinforced his passionate...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ...

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They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. ... The majority of men believed that women's participation in government was both unnecessary and redundant. ... Anger with their passive role in constructing the cahiers, irritated with the municipal government, annoyed with the stalled constitutional revolution, and fed up with the shortage of food, all fuelled their discontentment. Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set off on the fou...

• Word Count: 3295
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate