Ap European History Chapter 16

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Cabinet system

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Political system or heads of a governmental administrative department serve as a group to advise the head of the state all the ministers are drawn from the majority party in the legislation and are not responsible to it

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Constitutionalism

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Implies a balance between authority and power of the government on the one hand and on the other hand the rights and liberties of the subjects are citizens also the limitation of government by law and the rule of law and constitution maybe un written in British or Canada or written American

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Dutch East India Company

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A joint stock company charted by the state generals of the Netherlands to expand trade and promote relationships between the Dutch government and its colonial Avengers. It established a collony at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 and in the 1630s it paid return of 35% on investment

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Don Quixote

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Novel authored by Michael de cerantes perhaps the greatest work of Spanish literature. A servay up the entire fabric in Spanish society that can be read on several levels as a burlesque of chivalric romances as an exploration of conflicts of life and of the world

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Fronde

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Series of violent up prices during the minority of Louis the 14th triggered by oppressive taxation of the common people emission of the nobles and efforts of the Parliament of Paris to check the authority of the crown the last attempt of the French and ability to resist the king by arms

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Mercanyilism

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Prevailing economic theory of European nations in the 16th and 17th century is it rested on the premise that a nation's power and wealth were determined by its supply of precious metals which word to be acquired by increasing experts and reducing imports to achieve domestic self sufficiency remained the dominant theory theory until the Industrial Revolution articulation and the theory of laissez-faire faire

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Peace of Utrecht

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Serious of treaties that end of the war of Spanish Succession and in French expansion in Europe and mark the rise of the British

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Puritans

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Members of the 18th century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying and of Roman Catholic elements such as bishops elaborate ceremonial the wedding ring. Calvinist in theory Puritans had a broad social ethical and political implications

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Raisin d`etat

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Political theory articulated by French statesman Richelieu that holds that the interest and needs of the state may take partisans over traditional moral and International law

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Republican government

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In Europe the term refers to a non monarchical government. In America contacts traditional a steak governed by representatives elective on a board basis of suffrage who serve the interests of all the people wear election depends on a huge infusion of cash from private in corporate donors and where scarcely 50% of eligible people vote can the system be called Republican or democratic

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Second treaties of civil government

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By English political philosopher John Locke a justification of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 through 89 end of these peoples rights of revolution a defense of the rights of property it supports a system of checks and balances as embodied in the US Constitution

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Sovereignty

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The supreme authority in the political community in modern state is said to be sovereign when it controls the instruments of justice and the use of force within geographical boundaries recognized by

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Stand holder

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Its representatives or chief executive officer in each province in the 17th century that position with held by the son of William the Silent of the house of orange and was largely ceremonial

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States General

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Term used by the National Assembly of the United Providence of Netherlands where are the wealthy merchants class held real power because many issues had to be referred back to the provinces the United Provinces was a confederation or weak union of a strong states

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Totalitarianism

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The 20th century development that exalted the authority of the state and claimed that the right to direct all facets of a state cultural art education economy religion etc in the interest of the state those interested defined by addicted dictator

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Absolutism

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Form of government in which sovereignty is vested in a single person the king or queen absolute monarchs in the 16th and 17th centuries base their authority on the theory of the Divine Right of Kings that they had received their authority from God and responsible only to him