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Dec 26, 2024
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2016-2017 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GOVT171 CM - From Theocracy to DemocracyThis course will examine the historical conditions and theoretical presuppositions of modern secular society, or how democratic principles came to replace theological claims as the basis for political legitimacy in the Western world. Readings will be drawn from the Bible, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson, Mirza Abu Talib Khan, Tocqueville, U.S. Supreme Court cases, and contemporary writings concerning modernization and democracy in the Islamic world.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT171 CM
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