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Political regime is |
*A "sistem of rule" that endures (устоява) despite tha fact that governments come and go. * Whereas governments can be changed by elections, through dynamic succession (последователност), as a result of coups d'etat (a sudden and decisive (решителен) change of government illegally or by force; putsch (опит за преврат) and so on, regimes can be changed only by military intervention from outside or by some kind of revolutionary cataclysm from withinm |
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Aristotel's six forms of government |
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Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan" |
* He defends the absoultist government in the form of social contract. * Rejects divine (божествен) right of power * Sovereignity (върховен независим) means the "most high and perpetual (вечен, доживжтен) power. * The sovereignity belongs to a single individual - absolute monarch * Sovereignity is a monopoly of coercive (принудителен, насилнически) power * Sovereign (absolute monarch) is entirely unconstrained. |
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Constitutional government (Lock and Montesquieu) |
John Lock - "A letter Concerning Toleration" and "Two Treatises (трактат) of Government" Montesquieu - "The Spirit of the laws" |
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John Locks contributions |
* Establishing constitutional monarchy in Britain * Key thinker of early liberalism placing emphasis upon "natural rights" - the right to live, liberty and property. * Advocate of representative government and toleration * The sovereignity is inherent of the people, and he advocated a system of limited government to provide protection for the natural rights. |
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Montesquieu's contributions |
* Developed a scientific study of human society designed to uncover the constitutional circumstancea that would best protect individual libertym * Proposed a system of checks and balances in the form of "separation of powers" between the legislative, legislative and juridicial institutions. * The principle of separation of powers was incorporatrd into the US constitution (1787) and it later became one of the defining features of liberal democratic government. |
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Modern constitutional systems from the late 18 century - republicanisn |
*The constitutional republicanism established in the USA following the American War of independence of 1775-83, *The democratic radicalism uleashed (отприщен) in France by the 1789 French revolution, and the form of parliamentary government. After that Monarchies were distinguished from Republics; Parliamentary systems from Presidential systems; Unitary systems from federal systemsm |
