ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Constitution Of France, Primogeniture, Direct Democracy
4 Dec 2018
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If an aristocrat has 6 children, the eldest gets the land and power and the rest are left exposed. Due to these positions were created to give these other cushy positions. The public then are the ones who pay for these disowned children and pay for their wealthy lives. Paradox of naturalism: discovery (around this time) that people are shaped more by their environment/conditions, so if we change our conditions we change ourselves but how do you do that if the environment is still shaping you. French rev. and taxes: paine goes into detail about how the french rev. was largely provoked by the king"s efforts to raise taxes. Revolutionaries sated repeatedly that the right to raise taxes was not the kings: eventual creation of an assembly that would raise taxes. What they now saw in france and american was a renovation of the natural order of things.
