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-great believer in absolutism and divine rights of kings
-alienated Parliament -
-disliked by the people
-wanted sole control of the government
-dissolved Parliament
-caused financial troubles in England
-tried to impose taxes -
-Charles needed to impose taxes which means he needed to summon Parliament
-parliament insisted direct control of military affrais and Charles raised an army against them -
Also known as "Age of Louis"
-helped improve gov, arts, militrary affairs, language, literature
-"I am the state"
-incarnation of absolute monarch, powers flowed from God
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-Charles was defeated and tried for treason
-beheaded -
-ruled with stern Calvinist Protestantism
-levied high taxes
-rule was unpopular -
-ensured independence of the judiciary from royal pressures, prohibited standing armies in peacetime, extended freedom of worship to non-Anglican Protestants, and stipulated that the throne should always be held by a protestant
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-mind is a blank page until experience and the environment shape it
-faith in perfectability was the distinguishing innovation of the Enlightenment -
-most influencial books on government
-division of power to prevent any one branch from becoming too strong -
-smaller government's role is in national economic problems, the better
-father of free enterprise
-free market could solve all economic problems -
-absolute essential of a decent government
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-articles were often controversial
-sold more than 15,000 copies -
fights for voice of the third estate
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-291 clergy men
-279 nobles
-578 members of the third estate as representatives -
Three colors of the flag were born.
-Blue and Red colors of Paris
-White Color of the House of borboun -
-abolish serfdom
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-Robespierre is overthrown
-ended the Reign of Terror -
