CHAPTER 9: POLITICAL LAW (p.

222-232)

TERMS DESCRIPTION

Reformist Philosophers Believed in government by consent

Right Modern concept

John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau Reformist Philosoophers

Social contract theory Replace the divine rights theory

King John Tyrant king, sign the MAGNA CARTA OR GREAT CHARTER

Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of Independence

Boston Tea Party Revolt that escalated into The Declaration of Independence

Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Unalienable rights

Social contract Conventions and agreements, Mutual transferring of natural right to the Sovereign

Barbaric & Nasty Natural state of man according to Hobbes

Laws Expressions of social contract, Criterion of justice, Substantial shield of freedom

Niccoló Bernardo dei Machiavelli / MACHIAVELLI The cassic power pundit; nothing is stable in politics

If the ruler cannot be good always, he must at least pretend.

There are 2 ways of fighting: by law & by force

Leader should,himself shower the favors but delegate the

punishments. (BLACK KNIGHT PRINCIPLE)

It is good to be both loved and feared.

Tips on how to rule by Machiavelli
Punishments should be done all at once so that seldom felt will
be less remembered.

A leader must be shrewd & swift to match the inconsistency of

the people & the political environment.

The end justifies the means.

Roman Republican Government Censors tyranny and promotes self-gov’t & liberty

Religion A ruler would be at lost without it

Animating the people; Keeping men good; Shaming the wicked Religion is useful in

Virtue With this, one is praised & admired even by one’s enemies

Humility, lowliness, resignation Emphasis of christianity

Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore’s leader) Owed his leadership to Machiavelli

Leviathan (Might makes right) Life was poor, nasty, brutish & short

Theft, invasion, violence & death Human are in constant fear of? (By hobbes)

Thomas Hobbes Author of the Leviathan, Authoritarianism

Commonwealth (the people) The sovereign holds power from the ?

Ruler, state of nature Injustices of a ______ are better than injustices under a _____ (according to Hobbes
it justifies Authoritarianism)

Doctrine of the State’s immunity from suit Art. XVI Sec. 3 Consti, Sovereign is absolute....

Thomas More Republicanism, English Chancellor of Henry VIII,

Catholic Patron Saint of Lawyers, Believe in the separation of church & state
Family First Gov’t in natural society

Legal separation Relative divorce in the Philippines

Pater Familias Due care of a good father of the family

Unlimited power According to More, this has the tendency to weaken good minds and gifted man.

Traditions of men Human laws came from?

Lawlessness Makes man rush into every kind of crime

Natural law Apart from human law, there is a law that is written in the human heart that anyone
can know by reason

Educated conscience The virtuous training to seek what is good

Natural religion Basic belief in God & immortality of the soul

Utopia A country imagined by Thomas More

Utopianism Dreams, impossibilities

To attack the family A symptom of social chaos

Families, Nations ____become Tribes, Tribes became ____

Subordination & mutual cooperation Principles exemplified in the family

Hobbes, Locke ___ emphasized the irrational in man, ____ stressed that man has reason &
conscience

Locke His liberal philosophy inspired Thomas Jefferson

Sociable According to Locke, Man is by nature___

Common welfare Social contract was made to further ___

Civil rights (such as right to trial) Rights that would not exist w/o promulgation of laws

Natural rights, written laws Civil rights should protect & supplement___ through ___

Reason Law of nature which teaches that all mankind are equal and independent....

Blank canvas/ Tabula rasa For locke, there are universal natural laws because the human mind is a ____

Universal Principles Human beings share the same experiences that rationalized into ___