POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Corporatism, Class Discrimination, Free Trade

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

1648- treaty of westphalia important then and today. Around that time in europe, the continent was dividing in terms of overlapping sovereign rule: communities, princes, kings etc and on top of all that there was the church and the vatican. Even if you were the king of england henry you could not divorce your wife according to the church, thus the king separated from the church. Cuis regio eius religio: notion of sovereignty was born. Before kings did not have the supreme authority within a territorial boundary, after the treaty there was one within a particular state, which became a nation-state. This is where the birth of modern nation started. Changes: if you no longer have the vatican having the supreme authority, their power starts to decrease, slowly but surely. All these things are happening slowly and concurrently. People also began to theorize about the state and governance.