■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   What would Hobbes (Document 15-5) say of Bossuet’s justification for absolute royal authority? What would Bossuet (Document 15-2) say of Hobbes’s?

2. Question

   How does Hobbes’s (Document 15-5) “social contract” theory differ from Locke’s (Document 15-6)? How do Hobbes and Locke use “the state of nature” to further their arguments?

3. Question

   In what ways are Locke’s views (Document 15-6) reflected in the English Bill of Rights (Document 15-3)?

4. Question

   What do Henry IV’s (Document 15-1) and Peter the Great’s (Document 15-4) edicts tell you about their attitudes toward monarchy and their roles in the lives of their subjects?