Exam Three Flashcards
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List four different passages of Scripture (either OT or NT) and the perspective therein on government
Deut. 17- choosing a king and how kings should live; Psalm 72- A king’s justice and wisdom comes from God; Romans 13- Follow God first and best authroity, then be good citizen paying taxes etc; Matt 22- give to caesar what is caesars
Three methods of becoming a prince
prowess, fortune, crime
List and define the three parts of Just War Theory
Jus ad bellum- right cause
Jus in bello- right conduct
Jus post bellum- justice at the end of the war
List five questions of the post-Reformation era
1 What is the source of political authority? #2 How does God bestow that authority? #3 Is there a limit to the monarch’s authority? #4 Is rebellion ever permissible for a Christian or any subject? #5 What is the nature of the relationship of government to the governed?
Four aspects of English Government in 1600
Monarchy: hereditary since 800s, Parliament: House of Commons; House of Lords, Justice System, and Rights of Englishmen-Magna Carta
Three types of Courts in England
King’s Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer
Three types of limited government argument
Civic humanism, consent theory, ancient & immemorial custom
Name and define the two methods used by Thomas Hobbes
Compositive method- arguing from first principles
resolutive method- deduction of principles from effects
List four avenues for political debate in England
- Speeches before Parliament; court cases
- Acts of Parliament/ Edicts of the king
- Political essays and treatises
- Sermons and homilies from the pulpit
List three thinkers for Republicanism
James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, Baron de Montesquieu
List the three types of government defined by Montesquieu
Republic, Monarchy, Despot
What are kingdoms but great bands of brigands?:
Augustine, City of God
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because …love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails
Machiavelli, The Prince
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are
Machiavelli, the Prince
general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor e use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Common Law of England is nothing else but the Common Custome of the Realm
Matthew Hale, History of the Common Law of England
“and he …is called SOVEREIGN, and said to have sovereign power; and everyone besides, his SUBJECT.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Covenants without the sword are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
a State of Liberty, yet it is not a State of Licence… [because] …The State of Nature has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and Reason, which is that Law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions.”
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.
Simon Bolivar, Jamaica Letter
We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.
Simon Bolivar, Address to the Congress of Angostura
Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stability … unless this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail.
Simon Bolivar, Address to the Congress of Angostura
