Everyday Life In Early America Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes the lives of the average, seventeenth-century inhabitant of the British Isles and Northern Europe as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." More specifically, these five main categories can reduce to three major categories. ...
The paradox of constitutional persistence deals with the historical phenomenon of the persistence of what modern political scientists denote as the "Medieval Constitution"" in some, but not all, of medieval Europe. In essence, the paradox forces political scientists to answer for the occurrence of ...