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Difference Between Old and New World - Coggle Diagram
Difference Between Old and New World
Old World
Government
Absolutism
taxation
how king show their power
Social Contract
Power in one = resolute and consistent authority
"Placing all power in the hands of a king would mean more resolute and consistent exercise of political authority"
An agreement between people to give their rights to a single person
"social contract was an agreement only among the people and not between them and their king. Once the people had given absolute power to the king, they had no right to revolt against him."
Ideas
King is everything
People don't have much right
believe the divine rights of king to assert his authority
militatry are for the king to insure their power
Thinker / Philosopher
Hobbes
New World
Government
Separated government system
"powers were separate and kept each other in check to prevent any branch from becoming too powerful"
Government System
King
Executive
Parliament
Legislative
Court
Judicial
"English king as exercising executive power balanced by the law-making Parliament, which was itself divided into the House of Lords and the House of Commons, each checking the other. Then, the executive and legislative branches were still further balanced by an independent court system."
Maintain order, law, and liberty
Social Contract
An agreement between people and king, that king should protect people’s right
"it was not just an agreement among the people, but between them and the sovereign (preferably a king)."
King violates people’s right -> can revolt
" If a sovereign violated these rights, the social contract was broken, and the people had the right to revolt and establish a new government"
Ideas
No longer absolute, a system of modern government is made
People’s right are valued
life
liberty
property
military is used to support the poeple and insure people's right are protected
Thinker / Philosopher
Locke
Montesquieu
The Change (Enlightenment)
How it Starts
Protestant Reformation
should separate religious and state
Science Revolution
value science and reason
Ideas
Improve human condition on Earth, not religion or afterlife.
Value reason, science and rights.(life, liberty, and property)
Develop a theory of government to let some/all people govern
Church
Should be separated from government
Hobbes is the last one of the mold world because he prefer absolutism, but seperated the church from government, which is a modern world idea
"Hobbes warned against the church meddling with the king’s government. He feared religion could become a source of civil war."