True <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Socrates’ analysis of the hatred he has incurred is one part of a larger theme that he dwells on throughout his speech. Athens is a democracy, a city in which the many are the dominant power in politics, and it can therefore be expected to have all the vices of the many. Because most people hate to be tested in argument, they will always take action of some sort against those who provoke them with questions. But that is not the only accusation Socrates brings forward against his city and its politics. He tells his democratic audience that he was right to have withdrawn from political life, because a good person who fights forjustice in a democracy will be killed. In his cross-examination of Meletus, he insists that only a few people can acquire the knowledge necessary for improving the young of any species, and that the many will inevitably do a poor job. He criticizes the Assembly for its illegal actions and the Athenian courts for the ease with which matters of justice are distorted by emotional pleading. Socrates implies that the very nature of democracy makes it a corrupt political system. Bitter experience has taught him that most people rest content with a superficial understanding of the most urgent human questions. When they are given great power, their shallowness inevitably leads to injustice.
<span>The Charge Of Impiety</span>
1st
- Demanded repeal of all British laws taxing colonists
<span>-Banned all trade w/ Britain; Organized Continental Association to enforce ban
-Advised each colony to form militia
-Expressed loyalty to Britain
2nd
</span>- Form Continental Army
<span>-G Wash in command
-Olive Branch Petition
-Declaration of Independence
-Directed war and acted as central government
-More important</span>
Feudalism was a system of land tenure according to which land was held in return for services. This system developed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Under the feudal system, the king was the owner of all the land. The king granted portions of land to nobles (vassals/barons/greater-tenants-in-chief) in return for military service. In the same way, these nobles granted land to lesser nobles (sub vassals/knights/tenants-in-chief) who in turn paid military services directly to their lord (noble) and indirectly to the king (noble's lord).