The first democratic system was built in the ancient Greece in the 5th or 4th century BCE when Athens went from dictatorship to a certain form of Democracy enabling all male citizens with equal rights‚ freedom of speech and the opportunity to participate directly in the Assembly. Since then‚ the Athenian ekklēsia and the rule of the demos has been a source of inspiration for the centuries to come. Rulers and monarchs had referred to this source in order to revolutionize their own government or to
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Events which led to the French Republic Homework 14/03/2013 The French Revolution had great consequences and led to France becoming a Republic in 1792. But what are the main events which influenced the French people. Most French people didn’t question the way their society was organised but during the XVIII century‚ also called the Enlightenment‚ a group of writers‚ journalists and scientists called the “Philosophes” shared a way of thinking which they called reason. They believed that the
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In 1789 after the Protestant Reformation the Third Estate declared National Assembly. The members also took the Tennis Court Oath which meant they wanted their king to step up and give the people the rights they deserve. The Storming of the Bastille is really what started the French Revolution. In the Storming of Bastille‚ Bastille was overtaken by the Paris mob. After the Assembly has to deal with the greatest fear and the Jacobin Club (which has one of the most intense leaders in the French Revolution)
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29-Crash Course World History Video Notes The French Revolution 1. France in the 18th century was a rich and populous country‚ but it had a systemic problem collecting ___________ because of the way its society was structured. They had a system with kings and nobles we now call the __________ regime; where the people with the money—the nobles and the clergy—never paid taxes. 2. By 1789‚ France was deeply in debt thanks to their funding the __________ Revolution and the extravagant lifestyle of Louis
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The Declaration of Independence gave rights to the people of America that have defined our country since they were adopted on July‚ 4‚ 1776. Within this document there were three main rights defined for the American people. These main three rights were right of life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. Since the Declaration of Independence was written to declare the Independence from Great Britain who had constant control over their people. The declaration of indepence allowed the government to
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The two people in this week’s article are very much connected to each other‚ as they were both a part of the coup d’état on July 20‚ 1944. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Ludwig Beck played very important roles in the Resistance because of their prominent positions. Goerdeler was a Mayor of Leipzig in the Third Reich‚ and Beck was a Colonel General in the Army Chief of Staff. The two worked together for the same cause‚ but each had their viewpoints on the war. The rearmament of Germany was a surprising
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LG122: Core Skills and Methods for International Relations Title: Media Oriented Terrorism: The Role of Media in Influencing Terrorist Attacks and the Shaping of Public Opinion Word Count 3‚098 This essay will discuss the topic of media oriented terrorism with reference to the role of media in influencing terrorist attacks and the shaping of public opinion. The main argument of the essay will be that terrorist organizations use social media as means of conveying their ideological preferences with
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The revolutionaries agitated the reign of terror in which untold hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Even though at the time America was far from over-populated there were only a fraction of people compared to the population of today.. Robespierre encouraged the slaughter of roughly 15 million people. In the mean time‚ Charles Theodore‚ Prince Elector‚ Count Palatine‚ and Duke of Bavaria outlawed the order of the illuminati in
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Many of the people who were pro-revolution were members of the third estate or already sympathizers of the third estate‚ such as Robespierre‚ Marat‚ Danton‚ and Camille Desmoulins. Likewise‚ many of the figures that were anti-revolution‚ such as Louis XVI and the Catholic Church‚ were not only from the first two estates‚ but symbolic of them as well (the second estate and the religious
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Jean Jacques Rouseaau. Born in Geneva in 1712‚ was a famous philosopher‚ writer and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy greatly influenced the French revolution and his legacy still remains with us as the overall development of sociological‚ modern political educational thought. Rousseau’s view on human nature is quite interesting. As Rousseau discusses in one of his most famous work’s: The Social Contract‚ the state of nature is the hypothetical‚ prehistoric place and time
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