Mozambique Unit 5 Individual Project
SHEILA SHARP
APRIL 27, 2014
MOZAMBIQUE
Assignment: HUMA215 Individual Project Unit 5
Professor: Kharyssa Rhodes
Date: 4/27/2014
INTRODUCTION
Mozambique will be the focus of this paper. It will examine the nature of its social, political and economic structure.
Mozambique was a colony of Portugal until 1975, when an 11-year war of independence ended with the establishment of an independent, Marxist government. But a 17-year civil war started soon after independence, with an internal military uprising that some foreign governments supported. The civil war has affected Mozambicans severely, especially those in rural areas. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Over a million fled the country, largely to Malawi, and more than a million others were displaced within Mozambique. (B. Gabrielli 1999)
This paper will review the essence of its fundamental social contract.
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
The social contract is an agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. In the theories of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, an agreement, entered into by individuals, that results in the formation of the state or of organized society, the prime motive being the desire for protection and welfare, which entails the surrender of some or all personal liberties.
Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke each took the social contract theory one step further. Rousseau wrote The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right in which he explained that the government is based on the idea of popular sovereignty. The will of the people as a whole gives power and direction to the state. John Locke also based his political writings on the idea of the social contract. He stressed the role of the individual. He also believed that revolution was not just a right but an obligation if the state abused their given power. Obviously
APRIL 27, 2014
MOZAMBIQUE
Assignment: HUMA215 Individual Project Unit 5
Professor: Kharyssa Rhodes
Date: 4/27/2014
INTRODUCTION
Mozambique will be the focus of this paper. It will examine the nature of its social, political and economic structure.
Mozambique was a colony of Portugal until 1975, when an 11-year war of independence ended with the establishment of an independent, Marxist government. But a 17-year civil war started soon after independence, with an internal military uprising that some foreign governments supported. The civil war has affected Mozambicans severely, especially those in rural areas. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Over a million fled the country, largely to Malawi, and more than a million others were displaced within Mozambique. (B. Gabrielli 1999)
This paper will review the essence of its fundamental social contract.
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
The social contract is an agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. In the theories of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, an agreement, entered into by individuals, that results in the formation of the state or of organized society, the prime motive being the desire for protection and welfare, which entails the surrender of some or all personal liberties.
Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke each took the social contract theory one step further. Rousseau wrote The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right in which he explained that the government is based on the idea of popular sovereignty. The will of the people as a whole gives power and direction to the state. John Locke also based his political writings on the idea of the social contract. He stressed the role of the individual. He also believed that revolution was not just a right but an obligation if the state abused their given power. Obviously
References: Confider Richmond (1990) Constitution of Mozambique Retrieved from http://confinder.richmond.edu/admin/docs/moz.pdf Gabrielli B (1999). Oberlin Online-News and Features. A Brief Modern History of Mozambique Retrieved from http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/98oct/brief_history.html Global Edge (2014) MSU Broad College of Business Mozambique Introduction Retrieved from http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/mozambique .