After reading this article you will learn about the political ideas of French revolution. In the far-flung field of political ideas the contribution of the French revolution is quite worthy. We, in this section, want to point out some of them. Let us first deal with human rights and liberty. The French National Assembly declared certain rights which may rightly [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the political ideas that emerged from American revolution. If we go through the various aspects of political ideas that emerged from American Revolution the following can be treated as main. Locke's social contract and constitutionalism had a resounding impact upon the Americans and their fight for independence. The following observation has been [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the views of Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes on sovereignty. Machiavelli (1469-1527), Bodin (1529-1596) and Hobbes (1588-1679) dealt with the most important and vexed issue-the sovereignty. But Machiavelli did not directly analyse the idea. The interpreters of his political ideas, however, have deduced certain features of sovereignty from his long and variegated advice [...]