POL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Supremacy Clause, Connecticut Compromise, Sugar Act
28 Sep 2016
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Objective of constitution: promote justice, to maintain peace at home, and to secure the blessings of liberty for americans. Thomas hobbes: government should have limited powers. Against democratic gov: believed in contract theory (people of a country voluntarily give up some freedom in exchange for an ordered society) John locke: argued that monarchical power was not absolute but such power was dangerous and should be limited, wrote second treatise of civil government. About how people have the right to overthrow a government they believe is tyrannical. Baron de la brede et de montesquieu: french political thinker, believed that power needed to be balanced by power to protect/stop tyranny, wrote the spirit of the laws. Britain imposes taxes on american colonies: stamp act, sugar act of 1764 - taxed sugar, molasses, and other commodities, no taxation without representation . Boston massacre - british soldiers killed five colonists.
