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Locke Believed John Locke
2,024 wordsPerhaps one of, if not the, most historically influential political thinkers of the western world was John Locke. John Locke, the man who initiated what is now known as British Empiricism, is also considered highly influential in establishing grounds, theoretically at least, for the constitution of the United States of America. The basis for understanding Locke is that he sees all people as having natural God given rights. As Gods creations, this denotes a certain equality, at least in an abstra...
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Peace And Harmony Absolute Sovereign
2,862 wordsA state is sovereign when its magistrate owes allegiance to no superior power, and he or she is supreme within the legal order of the state. It may be assumed that in every human society where there is a system of law there is also to be found, latent beneath the variety of political forms, in a democracy as much as in a absolute monarchy, a simple relationship between subjects rendering habitual obedience, and a sovereign who renders obedience to none. This vertical structure, of sovereign and ...
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Form Of Power Michel Foucault
3,613 wordsFor at least two decades discipline has been at or near the top of the list of public concerns about our schools. 1 Nor should this surprise us; developing the mix of foresight, judgement, and self-control that enables (or perhaps just constitutes) discipline is an important task of childhood. As long as schools are places where part of a child? s education takes place, helping children develop discipline will be one of the problems? that is, legitimate tasks? that schools face. However, when us...
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