{"id":37958,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/fundamental-issues-of-political-power"},"modified":"2017-08-16T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T07:01:11","slug":"fundamental-issues-of-political-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fundamental-issues-of-political-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental issues of political power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Many historians consider the 17th century as a turning point in the evolution of a modern state system in Europe. Europeans at that time were grappling with fundamental issues of political power:<\/p>\n<p>1) Where does power come from? Who should wield political power and how?<\/p>\n<p>2) What should be the relationship be between those that hold power and those that do not?<\/p>\n<p>3) Who decides these different questions?<\/p>\n<p>4) Broadly speaking, 2 types of government emerged as political solutions to the crises of the time-absolute monarchy and constitutional government. Compare and contrast the characteristics of these 2 types of government in the cases of Louis 14th\u2019s absolutism in France and the development of English constitutionalism in the 17th century.<\/p>\n<p>5) As you analyze and provide specific examples from these 2 studies, be sure to include a discussion of political theories that justified each of these political models. Did these types of government share anything in common?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many historians consider the 17th century as a turning point in the evolution of a modern state system in Europe. Europeans at that time were grappling with fundamental issues of political power: 1) Where does power come from? Who should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fundamental-issues-of-political-power\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}