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The French Revolution was a huge milestone in France. It was because it changed the structure of society but instead of replacing the existing rules or even the political regime. The French got rid of the government as a whole. (Horvat) The French Revolution contradicted John Locke 's main political ideas of the the Enlightenment theory. John Locke 's main Ideas of the Enlightenment mostly talked about the government. They were contradictory because John Locke believed that all men are rational…

Parenting is not a popularity contest, and for good reason. Many times what is best for a child, or for the family unit, is not enjoyable or even comfortable – but for the ultimate good, it must be done. Ruling a nation is not so far removed, in fact they are much the same when it comes to fostering goodness and contentment. It is impossible to please everyone, and any attempt at achieving such widespread approval oftentimes loses the respect of all. Yet, if not a popularity contest the…

1. Imagine you are a political scientist from India, the U.K., Germany, or Brazil (choose one). You are asked to help the newly democratic country of “Bostonistan” design a new constitution. Bostonistan has a history of conflict among religious groups, which are dispersed throughout the country—not every religious group lives in its own region. Many years ago, Bostonistan was a democracy, but it suffered a coup after military leaders got fed up with legislative gridlock that had paralyzed the…

In Chapters 15 through 17 we learn more about how the countries of Europe modernize and sometimes do not modernize. However, no matter what country you look at in Europe at this time everyone has discontents with their country. This is the beginning of the ideas of revolution and rebelling against one 's country to take control over what the people want them to be and not what their leaders and monarchs want them to be. In Prussia, we were beginning to see how uneducated our people were. We…

pivotal part to America and the way of life American’s are accustomed to. From the founding fathers to the first colonies of New England democracy has always been a part of it. A country without full democracy cannot survive, looking at slavery when African Americans were no longer allowed the basic human rights they deserved they lost their part of democracy that ended in a war. Although democracy in American exist it has its moments of being a racial democracy were one race can survive better…

Separation of powers and a proper legal are some of the components in an effective government. However in William Goulding’s, Lord of the Flies, when the boys crashed on the island, they failed to create a government that supports themselves. They had a good start but as rules were broken and people not doing what they were supposed to do, the government slowly collapses. The boys fail to govern themselves due to the lack of two essential components of an effective government, a proper…

The country I am doing for my Cultural heritage project is Bolivia. The geography of Bolivia is unique among the nations of South America. The main features of Bolivia's geography include the Altiplano, a highland plateau of the Andres, and Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake on Earth, which is shared with Peru. Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable body of water in the world. It is also larger than Puerto Rico and is South America's second largest lake by surface area. Lake…

John Stuart Mill (1806–73), son of James Mill a famous political theorist, was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century and followed in his father’s footsteps by writing about liberty and the effect that the majority opinion has on an individual’s self-determination. In books such as Utilitarianism (1861) and On Liberty (1859) Mill looks to assert that intellectual and moral pleasure are superior to lesser qualitative forms of pleasure like physical ones…

In Cultural Background the word παιδαγωγός is the word that was studied and it means a tutor or a guardian of boys as they went place such as school. Among the Greeks and the Romans the name was applied to trustworthy slaves who were charged with the duty of supervising the life and morals of boys belonging to the better class. The boys were not allowed so much as to step out of the house without them before arriving at the age of manhood. The use of guardian to refer to the Law would have been…

Monarchy & Democracy Have you ever learned about the Monarchy, and the Democracy governments, my Fellow Ambassadors? Well I will like to talk to you about the differences between the two countries. I will give you details, opinions, facts, about the Monarchy and the Democracy government. In a Representative Democracy the citizens have the rights to elect leaders to represent their interest and their rights in the…