POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Absolute Monarchy, Res Publica, Liberal Democracy
17 Jul 2018
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End of fth chapter by machiavelli is important. The nobles have a great desire to dominate whereas the regular individuals they have a desire to have a freedom and allow everyone liberty. If you are a new prince, do not ally yourself with aristocracy. After the basis of hobbes" absolute monarchies is when democracies were rst introduced. From all the kings and queens passed, the people that wanted to take away the leadership from are the noble ones such as the church. Liberalism: limited government of individual rights and promoting freedom. Republicanism: focuses on patriotism, collective, public freedom (res publica) 1688: people have overthrown the monarchy, creates a new political form, a new constitutional monarchy, the monarch is fundamentally limited on the actions they take. It is also the beginning of liberal democracy. Right of the individual: (paragraph 87) you are born with certain rights and those rights are what we accumulate.
