The Enlightment writers fought for the rights of citizens and against the social and economical mechanisms of the Ancient Regime and the feudalism.
On the first hand, they established the fight for Reason and for the scientific methods as the ways to build knowledge hence, breaking with dogmatic beliefs, superstitions or extreme religious ideas.
It is important to highlight as well the ideas developed by Rousseau in his work <em>The social contract</em>, were he appointed that the citizens should be the ones legitimized to grant the power to the rulers of a state through suffrage. Therefore he supported popular sovereignty and suffrage. This sharply contradicted the absolute monarchy system that was the status quo in most European countries when the Enlightment ideas emerged .
Also, the idea of the division of powers was developed by Montesquieu. He stated that 3 branches of powers should be created in the goverment of each states: legislative, executive and judiciary, together with a system that prevents any of them from gathering too much power and ending up overruling the others.
Finally, the Enlighment claimed for basic human and civil rights: suffrage, freedom of speech, freedom of association, private property, etc. The first right declaration were written based on these ideas.
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Max Weber's Theory outlined in 'politics as a Vocation' explains that a state or nation holds the rights to violence; otherwise known as a "Monopoly on Violence." In which local, state, and federal police; as well as the military, are the main tools to enforcing and legitimizing the states rights to use violence. Understanding the role in law enforcement shows the state's ability to capture, imprison, or kill for the sake of public security and order to which is referred to as the "Monopoly on Violence."
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1- The U.S. blue-collar middle class has been in decline since at least 1975, and this decline has been accelerating since 2000. Many factors are at work, but one of the most visible is deindustrialization
2-A second issue sapping many Americans’ trust in their government is of generational inequities.
Those born in good times get advantages over those born in bad times. And those lucky generations have a stronger allegiance to a system that they benefited from.
3- The most profound economic and political change in the last 30 years is the rise of Wall Street.
The financial sector is arguably now bigger, richer and more powerful than ever before. Yet as its hold over the political system increases, its interests diverge from those of Main Street or the real economy, an argument even a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund has made
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