1) “Repeal of the Corn Laws is perhaps better seen as the victory of the masses over the agricultural oligarchy (oligarchy: power resting with a small number of people).” How does this extract present and validate this statement? 1) The Corn Laws was a system which placed tariffs and quotas on imported goods flowing into Britain. Britain wanted to achieve self-sufficiency and did not want to be dependent on imports‚ which is why the Corn Laws were imposed. These laws only took into account the interests
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In the Golden Age period‚ Spartan and Athens were the existing powerful city- states in Greece‚ without both being satisfied despite being prosperous. The more Athens tried to become stronger‚ the more the Spartans were trying to break them down; therefore‚ it is possible to say that they were fighting for power. The cities belonging to the Delian League were supporting the Athens whereas; the Peloponnesian League supported the Spartans. Finally‚ the Peloponnesian war took place in 431 BC which lasted
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builds on the standards of romanticism‚ as the trend away from Puritanism and religious Oligarchy. One of the essential‚ driving elements to Hawthorne ’s Scarlet Letter‚ is the deeply rooted romantic value associated with Nature‚ with all of its innocence and Purity. Thought the novel‚ it becomes evident what poor and corrupt people the puritans of New England are‚ but countering the degradation of the Puritan Oligarchy‚ is the glorifying of Nature and all things associated with it. An essential element
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The military oligarchy occupied a dominant position and has been in effective command of state power ever since the creation of the state. This oligarchy installed politicians and political parties in office to provide a façade of parliamentary government for adecade; it then decided to expel them in 1958‚ when the prospects of the impending general elections seemed to pose a challenge to its supremacy. The intervention of this oligarchy and more particularly‚ of the military‚ became more effective
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the empire started off as a monarchy‚ meaning they were under the authority of a king or queen. The monarchy in Greece lasted nearly 100 years‚ before they made the switch to oligarchy. In a society ruled by Oligarchy‚ a few people in the country have power‚ these people usually have large amounts of wealth. The rise of Oligarchy in Ancient Greece only lasted around 100 years. A new form of government‚ tyranny‚ was introduced to the Athenian society in 594 B.C.. In tyranny there is a supreme ruler in
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POLITICAL DIFFERENCES OF SPARTA AND ATHENS Athens and Sparta were two of the most powerful and well known cities among all the Greek nations. Most would find it easier to find more similarities among these two groups of mighty people. But there are some differences between these two power houses. For instance the way that these cities were governed and their political procedures and functions were quite different from each other. One major difference between the two cities was
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Infrastructure‚ Health Facilitie Types of Governments Autocracy Democracy Republic Monarchy Oligarchy Theocracy Aristocracy Dictatorship Major Types of Governments Autocracy (one person has all the authority and power purely by force) or may be he is elected by the people and then amended the constitution & ruled the govt and not ready to leave the power England/Netherlands‚ North Korea Oligarchy (a small group holds power who shares similar interests or family relations) China (Communist
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citizens played a political role in ancient Athens. Men rich or poor could vote‚ as long as they were qualified citizens‚ but usually the richest ones held the most political clout as Athens was a class based society. In contrast‚ Sparta was an oligarchy and could also be viewed as a military dictatorship in which all men served to defend the state. Both societies had an organized form of government‚ although the political structure was different. The cultures of the Athenians and Spartans
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treated quite appallingly compared to the standards of today’s women. The stem of this difference seems to lie in how these two city-states were governed. Sparta‚ known for its’ militaristic ways‚ was an oligarchy and Athens‚ known for its’ philosophers and thinkers‚ was a democracy. Sparta’s oligarchy was ruled by a counsel of 5 men‚ on being a lawmaker or giver. The lawgiver’s name was Lycurgus. Lycurgus was known for his warden-like ways in the training of men for war‚ but also for his equivalence
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Democracy Through Time Democracy as a concept has changed and evolved through the years. Lao-Tzu‚ a Chinese philosopher‚ advised a form of government that had many democratic values to his emperor. His work‚ Tao-te Ching‚ was written in the sixth century B.C. before the term democracy was even coined. Some time later‚ in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.‚ the Greeks gave this idea a name and put it into effect. In the work The Origin of Civil Society (1762) Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues
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