Us Constitution

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Voltaire

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Humans shold tolerate each other.
Rule through reason and logic, no absolute ruler.

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Montesquieu

Back 2

Separation of powers.

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Hobbes

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Monarchy is the only way to govern. Ruler should protect people (social contract)

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Locke

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-Natural rights
-Gov't is meant to protect human rights, if they don't then people can take their power away.

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Rousseau

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Socail contract: if you have a say in government then you must follow, if not then don't need to follow.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.

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"we therefore do in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare"

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ROUSSEAU
(ultimate authority comes from the people, consent of the governed)

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"He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people"

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MONTESQUIEU
(separation of powers ensures political liberty)

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"He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent for laws and establishing judiciary powers"

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MONTESQUIEU
(separation of powers)

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"..it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such a government..such is now the necessity with constrains them to later their former systems of government"

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LOCKE
(Givernment is mean to protect human rights, if not people can take away their power)

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"when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism"

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VOLTAIRE
(advocated for enlightenment deposition)

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"governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

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ROUSSEAU
(social contract; If you have a say in gov't you must follow law, but if you have no say don't need to follow)

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"..all men are created equal"

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ROUSSEAU
(man is born free)

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"All men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and"

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LOCKE
(natural rights)

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"Legislative powers incapable of anhilation have returned to the people at large for their exercise"

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ROUSSEAU
(consent of the governed)

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"the state... remaining exposed to the danges of invasions from without and convulsions within"

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HOBBES
(Government should protect people, king isn't doing his job if they are't protected)

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GRIEVANCE:
"For imposing taxes on us without consent"

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Stamp Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"He has advocated government here by waging war against Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill"

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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GRIEVANCES:
"For declaring themselves instead with power to regulate for us in all cases whatsoever"

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Declaratory Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"For depriving us of benefits of trial by jury"

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Sugar Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"For taking away our charters + altering fundamental form of gov't"

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MA Gov' Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"For writing off our trade with all parts of the world"

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Navigation Acts

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GRIEVANCE:
"He has exited domestic insurrections against us"

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Native Americans and slaves

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GRIEVANCE:
"He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny"

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Hessians

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GRIEVANCE:
"For abolishing the free system of english laws in a neighboring province"

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Intolerable acts

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GRIEVANCE:
"..and raising near appropriations of land"

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Proclamation of 1763

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GRIEVANCE:
"He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the Civil power"

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MA Gov't Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"He has dissolved representative houses"

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MA Gov't Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"For protecting them(troops) from punishment for any murders which they should commit"

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Administration of Justice Act

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GRIEVANCE:
"For transporting us beyond the seas of land"

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Sugar Act

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Reason for Declaration of Independence

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-Declare Independence from british rule
-Justify their actions
-Get active support