1. Greco-Roman views of law and Judeo-Christian can be similar and different in many ways. The time period of the Greco-Romans begins with the occupation of Greece. Greco-Romans had a powerful military, and dominated in that facility; citizenship was also given to non-Romans as well. The Judeo-Christian law is solely based upon religion; God and the Gospel are the two main things that Judeo-Christians follow.
2. Some of the ideas for Western politics trace as far back as Plato and Aristotle�s time. In Plato�s mind, a society should have 3 main classes; one for working (peasants,) one for the military and keeping the society defended, and the smartest of the people would make up the leaders. Aristotle, however, didn�t like the idea of giving one man power, because if you gave one man a taste of pure power they would go crazy with it and wouldn�t make a good leader. Aristotle believed more in a Democracy so that the people would have more power, I think Western politics have taken ideas from that and put it into practice.
3. Many nations have used the U.S. constitution as a guideline to start a democracy. Most of the things in the constitution make a good foundation for a newly designed democratic government which is the reason nations take a close look at it to create their own. The U.S. constitution has influenced democratic views and policies.
Standards 10.2
� John Locke was an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and had great ideas for revolutionary movement.
� Philosophers debated on good ideas for democracy.
� Philosophers helped by adding controversy into what people thought were a good democracy; it helped people think thoroughly.
� Magna Carta put the rights of the nation above the king.
� English Bill of Rights was an act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown.
� The Declaration of Independence made the Thirteen Colonies in North America declared them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
� The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is one of the fundamental documents of the French Revolution, defining a set of individual rights of liberty and collective rights of all of the estates as one.
� Bill of Rights was rights guaranteed to the citizens.
� The French Revolution gave France a democracy because they wanted to make it that way.
� Nationalism spread across Europe and people were like �whoa� so they repressed it for a whole entire generation until the Revolutions of 1848.