- John Locke: Second Treatise on Government
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
- William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
Explanation:
1. <em>Two Treatises of Government</em> (1689) is one of John Locke's most famous works. In this work, he established the principle that men are naturally free and equal, but with the purpose to interact in a healthy society, it was necessary that they transferred some of their rights to a government that the people chose and changed when they deemed necessary.
2. Thomas Hobbes published <em>Leviathan: The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil</em> in 1651. With this book, he became the first philosopher who developed the concept of Social Contract.
3. The most influential work of William Blackstone was the <em>Commentaries on the Laws of England</em> (1765-1769) in which he fully described the doctrines of English law.
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau published <em>The Social Contract </em>in 1762, which was a work that provided the means to establish a political community that would benefit the modern society.
Answer:
The West Africa UN subregion includes the following countries:Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Explanation:
The correct answer is b) articles of confederation
The articles did not deal with human rights and welfare because they were mostly about establishing a government to begin with. When things such as state and individual rights started popping up, they abandoned it and adopted the US constitution with the bill of rights.
Explanation:
Opium was first introduced to China by Turkish and Arab traders in the late 6th or early 7th century CE. Taken orally to relieve tension and pain, the drug was used in limited quantities until the 17th century. At that point, the practice of smoking tobacco spread from North America to China, and opium-smoking soon became popular throughout the country. Opium addiction increased, and opium importations grew rapidly during the first century of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12). By 1729 it had become such a problem that the Yongzheng emperor (ruled 1722–35) prohibited the sale and smoking of opium. That failed to hamper the trade, and in 1796 the Jiaqing emperor outlawed opium importation and cultivation. Despite such decrees, however, the opium trade continued to flourish.
Early in the 18th century, the Portuguese found that they could import opium from India and sell it in China at a considerable profit. By 1773 the British had discovered the trade, and that year they became the leading suppliers of the Chinese market. The British East India Company established a monopoly on opium cultivation in the Indian province of Bengal, where they developed a method of growing opium poppies cheaply and abundantly. Other Western countries also joined in the trade, including the United States, which dealt in Turkish as well as Indian opium.
Britain and other European countries undertook the opium trade because of their chronic trade imbalance with China. There was tremendous demand in Europe for Chinese tea, silks, and porcelain pottery, but there was correspondingly little demand in China for Europe’s manufactured goods and other trade items. Consequently, Europeans had to pay for Chinese products with gold or silver. The opium trade, which created a steady demand among Chinese addicts for opium imported by the West, solved this chronic trade imbalance.
