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10 Cards in this Set
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Hobbes |
Believes in strong sovereign power to control people. Autocracy, oligarchy. Wrote leviathan |
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Rousseau |
believed people were naturally "stupid yet peaceful". was against property rights and institutions promoting independent ownership. believed sovereignty should be in the hands of the people. influencer of french revolutionary ideas. |
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Article 16 of the French constitution |
President can be granted immediate power during immediate threat. Extends power to executive branch |
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Nullification |
In the united states constitutional history, is the legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal law which the state deems unconsitiutional |
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Federalism |
a system of government based on the division of authority between the central government and smaller regional governments |
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Cohabitation |
Occurs in semi-presidential systems, such as Frances, when the president is from a different political party then the majority of representatives in parliament |
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Nation |
a social concept which is determined by collective people with common traits or cultural or ethnic background |
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Common law |
In great Britain, laws derived from consistent precedents found by judges rulings and decisions as opposed to those enacted by Parliament. In the united states, the part of the common law that was in force at the time of the revolution and not nullified by the constitution or any subsequent statute |
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De Gaulle |
Founder of Fifth Republic and was elected 18th president of France |
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Jacobanism |
The belief that the people of France are french |
