Legitimacy and Resistance
This doctrine claimed that a monarch received authority from God rather than from the people.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
Louis XIV’s 1685 edict reversed tolerance for this, tolerance established for Huguenots by the 1598 Edict of Nantes?
What is religion (or religious tolerance)?
This 1628 petition restricted Charles I’s ability to tax, imprison, billet troops, and impose martial law in peacetime.
What was the Petition of Right?
This thinker believed people could agree to form a society and government through a social contract.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The Edict of Fontainebleau ended legal Protestant worship in France. Which French Protestant group was directly affected?
Who were the Huguenots?
Monarchs who invoked their divine right claimed their power came from Him
We can't keep you from going to dumb Mitty or stupid Bellarmine, but the 1685 Edict of Nantes barred children from attending these institutions, teaching education through Protestantism.
During the Civil War, this side fought for Parliament against the Cavaliers.
Who were the Roundheads/Parliamentarians?
This thinker said people have natural rights and may replace a government that violates them.
Who is John Locke?
Bossuet wrote in 1679 that without this type of authority, "the king could neither do good nor repress evil.”
What is absolute authority?
An absolute monarch might claim divine authority, while an Enlightenment thinker might argue that rulers must protect these natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
Versailles symbolized royal power and also served as the setting for this kind of institution expanded by absolute monarchs.
What is the royal court?
The English Bill of Rights required Parliament’s approval before the monarch could raise these.
What are taxes?
This thinker proposed that branches of government should balance one another, a principle that informed the U.S. Constitution.
Who is Montesquieu?
In the 1610 speech to Parliament, this king described monarchs as God’s lieutenants on earth.
Who is James I?
Hobbes favored a powerful ruler to restrain human violence; Locke instead supported limited government to protect rights. This is the central difference between their views of this institution.
What is government?
This French minister served Louis XIII and worked to strengthen the monarchy.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
While the Petition of Right set legal limits on Charles I, this document confirmed Parliament's role in governing
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Locke’s limited government protects people’s rights, while Hobbes’s strong ruler restrains violent impulses. These contrasting ideas address the power of this
What is government?
Bossuet’s argument supports absolute royal authority, while the English Bill of Rights limits the monarch through Parliament; the contrast is between divine-right rule and the supremacy of this governing body:
What is parliament?
James I and Charles I’s claims to rule without Parliament helped bring about this conflict?
What is the English Civil War?
After Henry IV died, this queen mother acted as regent for her son Louis XIII.
Who is Marie de’ Medici?
The Petition of Right set legal limits, the Civil War challenged royal authority, and the Bill of Rights strengthened Parliament; together, these developments helped establish this form of government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Hobbes’s Leviathan advocates a powerful ruler to restrain people; Rousseau’s social contract has people form government together. The contrast centers on whether political authority rests mainly with a ruler or with this group.
Who are the people?
Locke argued that government must protect natural rights and that people may do this if the government violates these rights.
What is overthrow the government?