Popular sovereignty

How did the ideas of mercantilism, The Enlightenment, and The Great Awakening contribute to the found of the United States? The United States government was created because the people of the Thirteen colonies had freed themselves from Great Britain and needed a new way of governing. They had split off from Britain because of the ideas of The Enlightenment and The Great Awakening. Each of these were movements that prompted people to throw out their old unjust government and built up a new one.…

American political system: an electoral system in which the majority rules and there is no minority representation, because the winner takes all. Except, in the 2016 American presidential election, the majority winner did not win; Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by over 2.8 million votes. Therefore, the Trump phenomenon is not the end of democracy as we know it, or even the end of the world. The Trump phenomenon is best understood as an “anti-establishment” threat to the sovereign people…

come as no surprise that their theories of sovereignty bear some similarities. How a sovereign comes into power depends largely on the circumstances. Both Schmitt and Hobbes find that conflict is what will bring people to commit to a sovereign. Once a sovereign takes power the he must maintain the promises he told the people that sacrificed their freedom for him to rule. Though Schmitt and Hobbes have their fair deal of similarities when it comes to sovereignty, ultimately Schmitt has a more…

The concept of citizenship and its boundaries are contested, yet its definition in the plainest form is to be a member of a political community, such as a nation-state and possess legal rights and political duties. As can be seen from its many ideals – namely republican, liberal, bound, cosmopolitan, pluralist or solidarist – citizenship has multiple sources of meaning, be they cultural, religious, ethnic or gender related. These conceptions each have their respective merits and downfalls, which…

In the articles, the authors highlight important notions such as “sovereignty,” “recognition,” “separateness,” “domestic dependent nations,” “dominate the physical space,” “reform the minds,” and “absorb the economic”. The authors argue that the legal and juridical sovereignty of American Indian provides them with the right to maintain and protect their traditional distinct political and cultural communities. In this pretext, to deal with the growing environmental problems at an alarming level,…

bodies in the newly created United States, to being a sovereign entity that is just as powerful – if not more so – than the legislative bodies under which it was once ruled. With the rise of corporate sovereignty, politics and the market have become deeply intertwined, so much so that the sovereignty of the corporation now poses a substantial threat by undermining democracy to support their ever-expanding empires. As Sklar states in The Corporate Reconstruction and the…

Lear’s identity is directly correlated with his Kingship. That would make him a driving political force in Britain. In Munson’s “The Marks of Sovereignty” The Division of the Kingdom and the Division of the Mind in King Lear”, she pays special attention to the word sovereignty in context to Lear. The first of which is “implied control over political territory.” (Munson 13). In this definition, the term holds a political meaning applied to nations and rulers…

On one hand, we have Political Realism was the predominant idea in Europe during the warring eras. It is based on Thomas Hobbes’s view of the world and that the world is in a constant state of anarchy. Each individual is responsible for his/ her being and only yourself can protect your rights because others would trample it down if you don’t. At the same time, you also need not to obey nor respect the rights of others. When applied to a much broader idea of international relations, each nation…

In this paper I will be assessing Hobbes view of man in a state of nature and why it is not possible to agree with life in the state of nature if one disagrees with the all-powerful sovereign. Due to the many factors associated with the state of nature and the social contract, if one agrees with such it makes it nearly impossible to disagree with the need for a government with limitless powers. I will argue that if one agrees with life in the state of nature, then they must as well agree with…

Thomas Hobbes Political Philosophy: The Leviathan When you hear the name Thomas Hobbes what comes to mind? Actor, teacher, or Maybe, you’ve never heard the name before. How about a 17th century philosopher with Founding work in political philosophy. He was born in 1588, in Wiltshire, England and Became a highly gifted student who soon attended Oxford. Thomas Hobbes’s first Published work was a translation of the Greek historian Thucydides completed in 1629. He was then…