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15 Cards in this Set
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Essential features of a State
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Population, territory, Soveregnty, government
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Evolution theory
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Scholars believed that the state evolved from family
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Force Theory
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says that the gov emerged when al the poeple of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group
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Divine right theory
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notion that god has chosen certain people to rule
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Karl Marks
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1818-1883 a german thinker and writer, a socialist who advocated violent revolution
Communist Manifesto |
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John Locke
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said that people were naturally endowed with the right to life liverty and property
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Thomas Hobbes
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in england was the first to tehorize hoe the social contract came about
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Direct Democrazy
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people goevrn themselves by voting on issues individually as citizens
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representative democracy
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the people elect representatives and give them the resposiblity and power to make laws and conduct government
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oligarchy
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any system of gov in which a small gruop holds power
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autocracy
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any system of gov in which the power and authority to rule are in the hands of a single individual
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democracy
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gov. ruled by the people
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Magna Carta
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"Great Charter" king john was forced to sign in 1215--established the principle of limited gov. in which the power of the monarch or gov was limited not absolute
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English bill of rights
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states what the ruleer can or cannot do- applied to american colonists who were english subjects
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Declation of Independance
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draft by thomas jefferson- july 4-- signed by 56 delgates, many ideas from locke
3 PARTS: Statement of purpose and basic human rights comlaints agaist george III Conclusion |
