COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links:

Document 16-1: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Instructions/A Royal Ordinance

Document 16-2: The Trial of Charles I

Document 16-3: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Document 16-4: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government

Document 16-5: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin

  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?
  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?
  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?
  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?

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    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?