European History
Absence of this technology meant that European castles tended to be coated in soot.
What is a flue?
Jefferson's substitute for John Locke's right to property.
What is the pursuit of happiness?
Like a contract, but a religious term sometimes used to describe a pact between God and the people.
What is a covenant?
The group of semi-prehistoric people in the British Isles thought to have enjoyed relative liberty.
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
Term for religious freedom that does not treat moral impulses as a matter of choice.
What is the freedom of conscience?
Murdered religious leader whose fight with the crown might be seen as an early challenge to royal authority.
Who was Thomas Becket?
Power that Hamilton seemed to declare in one Federalist Paper but then turned his back on in a later one.
What is judicial review?
Locke needed to explain that a conquered people do not lose their liberties because of this historical event.
What was the Norman Invasion (of 1066)?
Term for freedom when it is exercised with no limits or responsibility.
What is license (liberty to "do as he lists")?
Type of business establishment that Mill uses for his example of how speech can threaten an imminent harm.
What is a corn dealer?
Importation of this invention from East Asia reduced the significance of nobles in battle.
What is gunpowder?
Power that Publius says the courts lack because it is held by the legislative branch.
What is the power of the purse?
Civil liberties, under a democratic system, most need to focus on preventing this.
What is tyranny of the majority?
Belief that the American political system ironically relies on elite support for freedom and democracy?
What is democratic elitism?
European ignorance of this concept added to the deadliness of the 1300's plague.
What is "contagion"?
Parliament used King James II's decision to discard this as justification for replacing him by William of Orange.
What was the royal seal?
Where Thomas Jefferson placed the blame for slavery in the American colonies.
Who was the British king?
Lockean principle that disallows excessive appropriation of natural resources, especially before the invention of money.
What is the Waste Principle?
Morris traces Anglo-American rights to this group of people.
Who were the Romans (or Phoenicians)?
A concept that goes against Anglo-American political culture but often underlies bloody racial/ethnic conflicts.
What is the inheritability of guilt?
Corrupt Catholic clergy would sell these, alleging helping the people to get into heaven.
What is an indulgence?
Compacts in place in England that served as a precursor to American colonial governments.
What were city charters?
Mill excludes this sort of harm from counting toward his Harm Principle.
What is social harm?
Willed his auto-icon to Oxford, where it remains on display.
Who was utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham?
A concept employed today, especially by progressives, to justify cracking down on political/social speech that can have bad tendencies.
What is stochastic terrorism?