POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Communist Party Of China, Bourgeoisie, Direct Democracy
22 Apr 2019
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Key revolutions: 1688: the glorious revolution in england overthrew king james ii and established a. Whig-dominated protestant constitutional monarchy: 1775 1783: the american revolution establishes independence of the thirteen north. American colonies from great britain, creating the republic of the united states of. Sovereign = the term sovereign, derived from the latin super, meaning above, literally denotes one who is superior. Sovereignty = sovereignty is the authority to override all other authorities: a bundle of powers associated with the highest authority of government. Their just powers from the consent of the governed. p. 29: this moderate formulation of popular sovereignty, which stresses consent rather than direct rule, underlies modern representative democracy. International law: a state is independent of all other states and possesses the totality of political power within its borders, denotes autonomy from outside control in international affairs. The state exists when a sovereign power effectively rules over a population residing within the boundaries of a fixed territory.
