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He says the French nation is a social contract in which rights create citizen equity in the game, and citizens repay that equity by sacrificing for the nation.
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He says the French nation is a social contract in which rights create citizen equity in the game, and citizens repay that equity by sacrificing for the nation.
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Jiang reads the Dreyfus Affair as a test of French rights-nationalism: if the justice system can mistreat one citizen, all citizens are at risk.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that Jefferson’s Declaration largely copies Locke: rights come from God, government protects them, and failed government may be abolished.
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Locke accepts the need for government but makes legitimacy conditional on preserving inalienable rights: life, liberty, and property.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man begins modernity by treating rights as sacred, God-given, and prior to government.
interpretation
Robespierre rejects sacred property because property can require oppression; society, not God, grants property and must limit it by others' rights and national existence.
diagnosis
Jiang says exile from a Greek polis could be worse than death because only citizens mattered, citizenship was inherited, and slaves or foreigners had no political rights.
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"...government is illegitimate because it goes against the general will all right and this is important for us because this becomes the basis of..."
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"citizens and in return its citizens must be willing to sacrifice its life for the nation and that's why um the French Revolution was..."
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"Also, there were a lot of anti -Semitic elements within the French military. So rather than just say, you know what? We got the..."
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"...the liberals like Elma Zola, the Republic is about maintaining the rights of all citizens. And if one citizen loses his right, if one..."
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"...out. And this is what they call Manifest Destiny. Okay? All right. So 1776, America declares independence from Britain. And again, this is after..."
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"...is what John Locke said. We are born with three fundamental rights that God has given us, and therefore, no one can take away..."
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"...treatise but in it he basically explains that okay Hobbes is right we are born a saloon a chair and we do need government..."
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"...saying government is only legitimate if it guarantees us our inalienable rights okay so Locke is considered the founder of liberalism and his ideas..."
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"...Okay? This new constitution is something called the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. And it becomes a basis for most..."
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"...all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. And these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of..."
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"Last is 17. The right to property being invaluable and sacred no one ought to be deprived of it except in case of evident..."
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"There's a difference. Second the right to property like all other rights is limited by the obligation to regard the rights of others. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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