HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Tennis Court Oath, Scientific Revolution, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Scientific revolution and enlightenment: natural law, reason, questioning of authority, progress. Pro: consent of governed, right to life, liberty, and property. Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains . Being part of a society is a contract men enter of their own free will. Everyone else (98% of population; 60-65% of the land; all the taxes) Declaration of the rights of man and citizen: men are born and remain free and equal in rights, the purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression: the principle of all sovereignty rest essentially in the nation. Nobody and no individual may exercise authority which does not emanate expressly from the people. Violence justified by the idea of the people. Ideal of rule by the people and reality of divisions between people. Against: place of women is in the home.
