Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Contrasting Political Development. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 10 page research paper that compares and contrasts British and French political development during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The writer describes how Britain was committed to a path leading to parliamentary democracy while France at the same time was ruled by an absolute monarch. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khpoleaf.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
hundred separate political entities vying for authority over the populations within European borders. At the time, it was not at all clear which state would endure and which would be
absorbed into more powerful entities. For example, in addition to powerful states such as France and England, there were many more less powerful political entities, such as Burgundy, Bohemia, Lorraine
and Scotland, that is, nascent nations that would not survive the as autonomous sovereign states in their own right (Woloch, 1982). Therefore, it can be seen that the process
of European nation-building involved the subordination of numerous provincial identities, but out of this process grew the various nations that would dominate the world stage for the next several centuries.
Within this context, examination of the political development of France and England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries shows that these two European states took very different courses.
France France, as a coherent political entity, began from a central core of "fairly well-integrated, French-speaking provinces," which were supplemented by an outer ring of large provinces that were
brought into the realm of the French monarchy at various points (Woloch, 1982, p. 6). These outer provinces ere not firmly under the control of the French monarchy under later
in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertained to their governance (Woloch, 1982). While this
fact would seem to go against the development of the prevalence of absolutism, by the eighteenth century, European monarchs had not one but two theories to substantiate their claims to
defining sovereignty as resting in their own person. First of all, the monarchs claimed, "and the clergy preached," the theory of the "Divine Right of Kings," which stipulated that
...