Welcome, and remember...

Just a reminder about what we'd like to see here. Students will be responding to readings, and their grade will be based on the following rubric:
  • Reflection statements (self positioning within the course concepts);
  • Commentary statements (effective use of the course content in discussion and analysis);
  • New idea statements (synthesis of ideas to a higher level); and
  • Application statements (direct use of the new ideas in a real life setting).
Don't forget to mark the comments you want for credit with an FC.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Age of Revolutions- FC

During this time many diverse groups were coming to have vastly different political views than their superiors, the Deceleration of the Rights of Man, shows these vast ideas of new political views in a way in which all of society would be reformed and benifit. This came to be the most important document to come out of the French Revolution and later came to be the pre-amble to the constitution of 1791. In this document it is stressed for the need of rightful law and goes on to emphasize the importance of the preservation of unalienable rights, division of powers, freedom of press, civil liberties, and the abolusment of monarchy. These request were put in, because of past experieinces the people of France had to endure under their king. Examples of these are in the form of lettres de cachet, which was the case were the king could throw a person in jail for no reason, the inequallity presented between the three estates and the set of unjust taxes, for example the gabella, in the case that all people over the age of eight had to buy seven pounds of salt per year. All of these issues are taken care of in the decleartion and in the end comes to the conclusion that a liberal government needs to be formed to carry out all of these ideas. In this age of Revolutions people are stepping forward to present new ideas of government and demand a change to occur within society, the Decleration of the Rights of Man does exactly this.

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