POLI 2051 : POLI NOTES For EXAM 1
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Rule by the people or self-government: citizens hold political authority. Democracy, while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. monarchy. John adams in society: the framers believed that a constitutional system with a rule of law and. Social contract is a theory that government has only the authority accorded it by the consent of the governed: social contract- we are giving consent to the government to be in control. We loose it by moving to another county or if gov gets shut dwn. The case for natural rights: first proposed by thomas hobbes, revised by john locke. John locke argues that people had natural rights. : life, liberty, property. These beliefs are later echoed by thomas jefferson in the. Declaration of independence and are central to the u. s. There is not one single type of democracy: direct democracy.
