Laws/rules
The major function is to legislate by adopting, amending and rescinding laws
What is The National Assembly?
A ruler of people, a place or a nation with complete unspoken/uncontested power.
What is absolutism?
He is often regarded as the founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism, and he made foundational contributions to modern theories of limited, liberal government.
Who was John Locke?
The process in the scientific method involves making conjectures, deriving predictions from the hypotheses as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions.
What is the Scientific Method?
Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country.
What is the decoration of independence?
A commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles
What is the Tennis court oath?
The power a ruler holds over the people or land.
What is divine right?
A French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century.
Who was Napoleon?
Established a set of principles, rules and practices that helped to maintain balance between the major powers after the Napoleonic Wars, and to spare Europe from another broad conflict.
What is the Concert of Europe?
The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
What is Bourgeoisie?
A cornerstone of the individual liberties that we enjoy, and it presents an ongoing challenge to arbitrary rule.
Magna Carta
The ruler of England 1509-1547, had many wives and started his own church.
Who is King Henry VIII?
A natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
A superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center.
Geocentric Theory
The clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
What is The 3 Estates of France?
The Bill firmly established the principles of frequent parliaments, free elections and freedom of speech within Parliament.
What is English Bill of Rights?
The ruler of France from 1638 – 1715, Was a decent leader until he built a palace (Versailles) off of the peoples taxes leaving France in debt.
Who is Louis XIV?
A mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
A heliocentric system is one in which the planets revolve around a fixed sun. Thus Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all revolve around the sun.
Created The Spirit of Laws (1748), one of the great works in the history of political theory and of jurisprudence.
Who was Baron de Montesquieu?
Provided protection against individual rights like liberty, property, freedom of speech and the press, freedom of religion and equal treatment before the law.
What is Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
The czar of Russia between 1682-1725, brought western etiquette into Russia.
Who was Peter the great?
An English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
A holiday marking the anniversary of the fall on July 14, 1789, of the Bastille, in Paris.
Famous for reconceiving the social contract as a compact between the individual and a collective “general will”
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?