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What are Machiavelli's seven rules of statecraft.
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-1) Avoid neutrality
-2) Avoid the hatred of the people. It is better to be feared than loved -take revenge quickly -kill your enemies, but let their children get the property. -3) Overall, the end (gaining and marinating power) justifies the means -4) Do as men do, not as they should do. -The prince should act in an immoral way in order to preserve the state -5) Be cunning. -Remove the popularity of opponents -Eliminate a rival by doing him in or rewarding him with an office that has little power -A prince should be both a lion and a fox. A lion to scare away the wolves and a fox to recognize traps. -6) Undertake great enterprises -Do great things and link religion to them -7) Be prepared militarily -The prince should make war and the preparation for war his only area of study |
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One of the most famous and influential theorists of absolutism
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Jean Bodin
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Who wrote Six Books of the Republic
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Jean Bodin
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power of the king is absolute
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Absolutism
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Suggests to look at the king as a father is the natural authority in a family, so a king is the natural authority in a kingdom
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Absolutism
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king has power over his subjects that is virtually unlimited.
-No need for legislature as kings legislate by decree -People have on right to rebel or resist king. |
Absolutism
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Who says Kings are God’s representatives on Earth and are bound only by God’s laws
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Jacques Bossuet
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a European political and religious doctrine of political absolutism.
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Divine right of kings
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Who estabilished the Divine right of kings.
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Jacques Bossuet
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Who wrote the book Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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Who says life in the state of nature is nasty, brutish an short.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Who establishes teh Social contract
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Thomas Hobbes
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-people surrender all rights in exchange for protection
-“protector” has unlimited power -“protector” is above the law |
Social Contract
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Second Treatise on government
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john locke
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Who developed an alternative to hobbes theories
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John locke
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Who separated powers among three branches.l
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John locke
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Who believes in Inalienable rights—life, liberty, property
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john locke
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What are the separation of powers and what are their functions.
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-Legislative—makes laws
-Executive—enforces/executes laws -Federative—foreign policy |
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Who is known as the father of international law.
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Hugo Grotius
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Who writes a book outlining the behavior of nations.
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Hugo Grotius
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Who talks about on the law of war and peace.
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Hugo Grotius
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will force nations to conduct war and peace on the law of
nature and principles of humanity |
international law
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Who says “just wars” are necessary to maintain rights
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Hugo Grotius
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What are Hugo Grotius's methods of solving disputes?
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-1) conference and negotiation amongst two rivals or contestants.
-2) Compromise, which is a settlement in which each side gives up some demand or makes concessions -3) Single combat or choosing by lot. |
