Despot/Despotism Essay

Donald Trump did not win the popular vote, and there is no proof of voter fraud to this day. Like George W. Bush in the year 2000, Trump won due to the electoral college, the system America uses to select presidents.Thus, the argument cannot be made that Trump beat Hillary Clinton unfairly, supposing we find no evidence of Russian influence. Even if Trump won with 23 percent of the popular vote, the lowest possible number that allows a victory in the electoral college, it still would be fair,…

The Enlightenment, the proliferation of rational ideas throughout the 18th Century, has a dualistic political legacy. The paradoxes it produced were liberalism - emphasising political freedom and representation - and authoritarianism, imperialism and independence. Religion, instead of being displaced by reason, remained to influence and reflect the Enlightenment’s political legacies. Kant may stress “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” from Christianity but…

In 1804, he implemented Code Napoleon, officially know as the civil code of 1804. This code provided for a single legal system for France, equality before the law and careers open to talent. It also granted freedom of religion, abolished serfdom and secularized the state. However, on the less liberal side of the spectrum, workers were denied collective bargaining (Negotiation between workers and their employers to determine wages, hours, rules, and working conditions.), trade unions were…

My first boss was the nastiest woman I’ve ever met. Back in 2012, after months of searching for a first job in the aftermath of the Great Recession, I finally landed a stock position at an off-price retail store. Besides the hard work and early morning hours, my biggest memory of my 18-month employment there was how incredibly rude, nasty, combative and just downright mean the store manager was. True, she was accomplishing great things: she kept the store spick and span despite being in one of…

17th and 18th centuries, was an intellectual movement that emphasized reason rather than tradition. The philosophies heavily influenced many leaders and were even taken on by absolutists. Frederick the Great and Catherine of Russia, despite their despotism, were truly enlightened rulers who implemented the ideals of Enlightenment philosophers. Frederick II and Catherine II were absolute rulers who ruled during 17th century enlightenment, as the enlightenment brought major change to European…

To the people of Fontenay-le-Comte, I thank you all for having provided me with the opportunity to represent you in the National Assembly. In the past few months, I had listened to and voted on each proposition with only your best interest in mind. Despite my efforts, not only have we lost the National Assembly, we have lost our beloved country of France to Austro-Prussia. Despite the loss of our country, I write to you in good faith that the invasion and takeover of France will in fact greatly…

Reflection Precis #2, State Responses to Terrorism (3/17/2016) Part I: In reading Manfred F R Kets de Vries’ article on The Spirt of Despotism: Understanding the Tyrant Within, gives an insight that, “the disposition to violence exist in all of us,” meaning that all humans have a natural tendency to act with violence against others with the act of power. To take a look at a slight example on having power, Hector did his presentation on torture, he shared a YouTube link on some interviews by…

The point of the French Revolution was “to accelerate and embitter a reaction” of the enlightened despotism and create a modern civilization (Palmer 325). Enlightened despots were abundant in Europe preceding the French Revolution, and Napoleon emulated these rulers to create a sense of nationalism. For example, Napoleon created “the doctrine of careers to open to talent [which is] what…

the American Revolution. 2. Which of the Enlightenment philosophes had the most influence on the U.S. Constitution? Explain. Montesquieu was famous for his work, The Spirit of the Laws, in which he analyzed three types of governments: monarchy, despotism, and republic. In…

started with the coming of the Europeans, who, for their administrative compulsions were required to know the land and its inhabitants whom they were going to rule. But the history produced by them was always imbued with the notions of oriental despotism and self-sufficient village economy, the main characteristic of which was the changelessness from the earliest times to the coming of colonial rule. Hence, all the developments and changes in the past were assigned to external forces. The…