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WTF?
I was just going through my "general" email folder and came across these class notes from freakin "She who shall not be named"'s class. and I forget what it was called now! totally! that's just crazy.
anyway think I was away or something and R from back then typed these notes up.
So I here by present them for anyone who cares, (and it's not me and never was! :)
Hi Rachel!
Hope you're well. I made tacos for dinner tonight. They were really great.
It's been ages since I had them.
Here are the notes from Friday's Public Life Past and Present class:
English Revolution (1688/89)
* Struggle against the arbitrary power of kings and against the legal
privilege of landed nobility.
* Liberty came to rest on a number of specific rights, established as
unwritten conventions:
- Freedom from arbitrary arrest, search and taxation
- Equality before the law
- The right to a trial by jury
- Freedom of though, speech and religion (to some extent)
- Freedom to trade
* In 18th Century England, the private sphere of liberty was perceived to be
protected by the balance between (the parliamentary houses of) Lords and
Commons - the Lords representing tradition and nobility and the Commons
representing (albeit through a tiny franchise) the people. The notion of
Liberty, not political participation, reigned supreme.
* Despite these limitation there emerged two crucial principals:
1. Government by consent
2. Civil Liberty
American Revolution
* In America, notion of the 'Rights of Man' and of national rights gained
considerable mileage before the outbreak of revolution. The consequence of
this view was a perception that (a) all citizens should have the right to
participate in choosing a government since (b) all citizens were equal.
* However, the Americans faced a dilemma: if the ownership of property was a
fundamental human right, and if its protection is one of the main reasons
for instituting government, what, then, should be the position of those
without property?
* Thus, in the American Revolution, the statement of national right went far
beyond the willingness of many of the revolutionaries to uphold them. The
political system established in post-Revolution America established a series
of checks and balances designed not only to check executive (Presidential)
power, but also keep participation by the majority of the citizenship to a
minimum, while at the same time nesting government's responsiveness to the
propertied classes.
French Revolution
* Also embodied notions of the rights of man - expressed in the Declaration
of the Right of Man and the Citizen (1789) and in the French Constitution of
1791.
* Began as a moderate revolution, intending that a constitutional monarchy
after the style of the English would follow. However, the intransigence of
the Monarchy, the Aristocracy and the Church hierarchy combined with
pressure from the urban poor to radicalize the revolution - and the ideas
upon which it was based.
* During the Jacobin ascendancy, the leaders of the Revolution took the view
that if all men had natural right, and if government existed to protect
these rights, all men should have a say in choosing the government and
participating in politics. Robespierre actually tries to ameliorate the
conditions of the poor in France by fixing prices and other such measures.
* For the Jacobins, the idea of liberty was qualified by the ideal of
democracy, a community based on political equality in which government might
intervene in civil society to defend the interests of the poor against the
rich.
(the end)
See you tomorrow,
R
so wasn't that just so educational? Lol
I am now just trying to delete my one post in my pdcast cos it's not how I wanted to start it but I can't figure it out.
Also I have been trying to find a Karioke track to "The Voice within" cos it's a nice song in my range and I wanna try singing it. At least I was in a bad mood this morning and I had to find it to make it all better! :( I found this site, but problem was I couldn't find the "buy button" and these are the actual real backing tracks as oppose to just middy. I love middy too! and my collection didn't get lost in the crash, yeah!
and now I go to see what Doctor Phil is all about today!
Til Next Time, RdFreak
anyway think I was away or something and R from back then typed these notes up.
So I here by present them for anyone who cares, (and it's not me and never was! :)
Hi Rachel!
Hope you're well. I made tacos for dinner tonight. They were really great.
It's been ages since I had them.
Here are the notes from Friday's Public Life Past and Present class:
English Revolution (1688/89)
* Struggle against the arbitrary power of kings and against the legal
privilege of landed nobility.
* Liberty came to rest on a number of specific rights, established as
unwritten conventions:
- Freedom from arbitrary arrest, search and taxation
- Equality before the law
- The right to a trial by jury
- Freedom of though, speech and religion (to some extent)
- Freedom to trade
* In 18th Century England, the private sphere of liberty was perceived to be
protected by the balance between (the parliamentary houses of) Lords and
Commons - the Lords representing tradition and nobility and the Commons
representing (albeit through a tiny franchise) the people. The notion of
Liberty, not political participation, reigned supreme.
* Despite these limitation there emerged two crucial principals:
1. Government by consent
2. Civil Liberty
American Revolution
* In America, notion of the 'Rights of Man' and of national rights gained
considerable mileage before the outbreak of revolution. The consequence of
this view was a perception that (a) all citizens should have the right to
participate in choosing a government since (b) all citizens were equal.
* However, the Americans faced a dilemma: if the ownership of property was a
fundamental human right, and if its protection is one of the main reasons
for instituting government, what, then, should be the position of those
without property?
* Thus, in the American Revolution, the statement of national right went far
beyond the willingness of many of the revolutionaries to uphold them. The
political system established in post-Revolution America established a series
of checks and balances designed not only to check executive (Presidential)
power, but also keep participation by the majority of the citizenship to a
minimum, while at the same time nesting government's responsiveness to the
propertied classes.
French Revolution
* Also embodied notions of the rights of man - expressed in the Declaration
of the Right of Man and the Citizen (1789) and in the French Constitution of
1791.
* Began as a moderate revolution, intending that a constitutional monarchy
after the style of the English would follow. However, the intransigence of
the Monarchy, the Aristocracy and the Church hierarchy combined with
pressure from the urban poor to radicalize the revolution - and the ideas
upon which it was based.
* During the Jacobin ascendancy, the leaders of the Revolution took the view
that if all men had natural right, and if government existed to protect
these rights, all men should have a say in choosing the government and
participating in politics. Robespierre actually tries to ameliorate the
conditions of the poor in France by fixing prices and other such measures.
* For the Jacobins, the idea of liberty was qualified by the ideal of
democracy, a community based on political equality in which government might
intervene in civil society to defend the interests of the poor against the
rich.
(the end)
See you tomorrow,
R
so wasn't that just so educational? Lol
I am now just trying to delete my one post in my pdcast cos it's not how I wanted to start it but I can't figure it out.
Also I have been trying to find a Karioke track to "The Voice within" cos it's a nice song in my range and I wanna try singing it. At least I was in a bad mood this morning and I had to find it to make it all better! :( I found this site, but problem was I couldn't find the "buy button" and these are the actual real backing tracks as oppose to just middy. I love middy too! and my collection didn't get lost in the crash, yeah!
and now I go to see what Doctor Phil is all about today!
Til Next Time, RdFreak