POLS 1150 Lecture 4: Week 04-October 3-The Modern State
31 Jul 2015
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Note: consent of the governed does not necessarily mean full popular sovereignty can have consent without universal suffrage: liberalism vs. What hath the soldier fought for? : people should not make the laws who are able to influence the level of the laws (e. x. makes laws that best suit them, liberalism vs. the common people. James madison, one of the us founding fathers: Does not want the senate to make any hasty decisions : liberal democracy vs. civic republicanism. An alternative view of the government-society relationship dominant in athenian democracy. Civic republicanism based on civic virtue, which means dedication to the republican city- state and the subordination of private life to public affairs and the common good (held, models of democracy, 14). Cannot just do your own individual things that you think it better for the greater good. The most famous definition of the modern state is max weber"s:
