Le Republique et La Revolution

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A More Perfect Union

ACC pts Flaw Solution

No POTUS No moderator Executive Branch

No Court System No moderator, Inconsistencies Federal Judicial Branch

Unicameral Congress Equal representation per state Bicameral Congress: Senate and the house

Imbalance Inequality, Lack of National Unity National Government, State Government, and Local Government

1786 Shay's Rebellion, men protest, and take siege of courthouses

A Bundle of Compromises

Timeline

1781- 1787 the Articles of Confederation are in action

1786 Shays Rebellion takes place

1787 Constitutional Convention takes place, with an original intent to edit the Articles of Confederation, the men scrap the AOC and create the constitution

3/5 Compromise

North South

Slaves will not count as a full person: greater representation in the north get to treat slaves bad

Benefits abolitionist have larger population

1807 the 3/5 compromise is revisited, and the slave trade is going to end: no more slaves coming in front he west coast

3/5 of a person for the population of the sate could be slave

battle of slave states vs. non slave states

slave states wanted to count slaves as on e person and slave states thought was unfair

The Great Compromise

Small State Large States

Get the Senate which has equal representation House of Representatives; Bi cameral congress made up of senate and the house, number is based on population. 1 rep per 40,000 people

The Electoral College

system where a president is elected,

winner takes all system and is related to the number of representative and senators

Candidates spend their money and time in highly contested states

Louis XVI

French Society

Clergy- level two

Peasants- hold everything on their backs

Aristrocrats

Estates General- legislative body of the French Government

Clergy- First Estate

Aristrocrats- Second Estate

Everyone Else- Third Estate

The People will be able to voice their opinions and be part of the government. In a world that is dominated by absolute rulers, they now have a voice

The Storming of Bastille

No Freedom os Speech- lots of censorship

taxation policy un equal

dried jobs- especially government positions

voting in the Estates General was by estate, not head

3rd Estates Concerns

What is the 3rd Estate- Everything

What has it been until now in the political order-nothing

What does it want- to become something

Sieyes 3 Questions

The French revolution is the story of the have nots who want to be part of something

Timeline

Cahies are produced- they get to louis XVI desk and he throws them away. On June 20th 1789 members of the 3rd estate show up, and the delegates of the 3rd estates are excluded from the meeting due to "repairs"- not true

Tennis Ct. Oath- The 3rd Estate meets at an indoor tennis court, because they are locked out of the Estates General. One person emerges, and the Tennis Court Oath forms the National Assembly.

National Assembly- want to maintain the principles, to not be corrupt, not be absolute, and in the future, The firs and Second Estate, have shut them out and the National Assembly declares they can be shut out, but they are not going to be silenced.

Declaration of rights of man and citizen- this is produced by the National Assembly. article 5 says- the law has the right to forbid and no one can be forced to do something that the law does not say, as long as it is in the law, people should be able to do anything that is nor harmful, laws should not be unreasonable and arbitrary. article 3 says no individual can exercise authority that does not precede from it. The position that you are in should be deserved and you should have to qualify for it (voted to be put into position) Article 2 the aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural rights of a man

Storming of Bastille-Bastille is a prison and was stormed and overtaken in 1789, and was the symbol of government oppression, people began to take this into the streets, and are getting rallied up

Light

Light

Tennis Court Oath

The National Razor

Why Kill Louis XVI?

Timeline

1791- Flight to Varenes the city Louis XIV is caught in trying to escape France on the border of Austria and constitutional monarchy

1793- Louis XVI Executed

No Other Option (no system, no policy, no hope for reconciliation.)

Symbol of the French's power, revenge and justice

Violence as the normal

He is a prisoner of Paris

He has abandoned his people- and betrayed any trust that the people of France by attempting to flee

If Louis XIV has an attempt to escape again, he could go to Austria, and the Austrian army could come into France and defeat the revolutionaries.

Louis XIV has not violated any official crime, but he has committed a long train of abuses

A Bundle of Compromises Part II Checks and Balances

Idea of Montesquieu (Enlightened thinker)

When power is in the hand of one person they can abuse the power. this can be prevented by the dividing the power

The three branches of government has the ability to check someone by vetoing

Federalism

Power divided by federal or national government, state government and among local government

Federal States Local

International Relations Maintain State Roads Zoning

Diplomacy Voter Qualifications

Trade Power to make Contracts and Wills

Post Office Tax

Power to Declare war and Peace

Tax

Controlling Militia

Elastic Clause

Laws can be stretched by congress when it is necceary and proper

B.U.S is created by the congress in the late 1700's it is the Bank of The United States

Able Was I Ere I saw Elba

Same

Same thing backwards and forward,

Elba is a place that is probably discovered by Napolean

Napoleon is Exiled twice, to Elba, and when he is exiled he said these words, Which mean Able was I when I saw Elba

His situation is positive even though he is being exiled

Think of it as "able as I ere I saw Huntsville" which is a prison (why would you be thinking positively about exile

Reign of Terror

1793-94

Guillotine- more humane, but many more people are going to be sent to their death

Enemy of State?

Paranoia

The Revolution has begun and bloodshed is just starting

Robes Piere is the original leader of the revolution and is executed by the people of France

Return to normalcy

besides the raids of terror, the French want both safety and balance

Sans Culotte

Napoleon

Rises through power by Military Means: Just like Caesar, who goes to Gaul to build an Empire

France is getting their power back through Napoleon who is restoring their Glory

Napoleon Crowns himself Emperor in the presence of others which say, and goes on of ten years of conquest

by 1812 Napoleon is heading into the heart of Russia to conquer

Napoleon is exiled to Elba because he thought he could conquer in Russia, but his men didn't succeed because they don't have supplies, and encounter the Russian Winter

in 1816 Napoelon is Exiled once again to the british Island of St. Helena, and dies their

After Napolean dies, the French once again have a king

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A More Perfect Union

A Bundle of Compromises

ABle I was ere i saw

L'Etat, C'est Moi

The national razor