COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

  1. What do these documents suggest about the basis of authority in constitutional and absolutist states? What features differentiated them as systems of government? What features did they share?

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    What do these documents suggest about the basis of authority in constitutional and absolutist states? What features differentiated them as systems of government? What features did they share?
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    points: 10

    What do these documents suggest about the basis of authority in constitutional and absolutist states? What features differentiated them as systems of government? What features did they share?
  2. What similarities and differences do you see between Locke’s and Hobbes’s views of human nature and government?

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    What similarities and differences do you see between Locke’s and Hobbes’s views of human nature and government?
    accept_blank_answers: true
    points: 10

    What similarities and differences do you see between Locke’s and Hobbes’s views of human nature and government?
  3. In what ways were both Hobbes and Locke responding to the debate over political authority evident in Charles I’s trial?

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    In what ways were both Hobbes and Locke responding to the debate over political authority evident in Charles I’s trial?
    accept_blank_answers: true
    points: 10

    In what ways were both Hobbes and Locke responding to the debate over political authority evident in Charles I’s trial?
  4. Based on Charles I’s trial and the account of Stenka Razin’s revolt, what set the English and Russian states apart politically, culturally, and socially? How may this help to explain why Charles I’s autocratic rule failed in England while the tsar’s flourished in Russia?

    Question

    Based on Charles I’s trial and the account of Stenka Razin’s revolt, what set the English and Russian states apart politically, culturally, and socially? How may this help to explain why Charles I’s autocratic rule failed in England while the tsar’s flourished in Russia?
    accept_blank_answers: true
    points: 10

    Based on Charles I’s trial and the account of Stenka Razin’s revolt, what set the English and Russian states apart politically, culturally, and socially? How may this help to explain why Charles I’s autocratic rule failed in England while the tsar’s flourished in Russia?