Ch. 20 Flashcards
Locke
life, liberty, pursuit of property
people have right to overthrow the government
classical liberalism
emphasizes freedom, democracy, and importance of individual
only their to govern the people
Adam Smith, laisse affair
Montesquieu
checks and balances, separation of power
third estate
proliteriate
Emanuel Joseph Sieyes
argued that third estate constituted the true strength
National Assembly
first french revolutionary legislative made up of third estate
Women March on Versailles
demand royal family in Paris
Edmund Burke
glorified unrepresentative government, predicted reform would lead to chaos
Mary Wollstonecraft
“A Vindication of Rights of Women”
right to own property, divorce
Declaration of Pilnitz
intervene in France, first coalition wars
Legislative Assembly
after declaration of Pilnitz taken over by Jacobins
Napoleon Code
Civil Code
Battle of Trafalager
british navy defeats Napoleon
constitutional Charter
accepts France’s revolutionaries charges and guarantee civil liberties