ESSAY: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT Here is your goal for this assignment:

Write an essay relating the political thoughts in the Declaration of Independence to the Bible

From an encyclopedia, the Internet, or another reference, read the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

Copy each phrase that you think is part of the tradition of Western political thought (for example "all men are created equal").
In an essay of 300 words explain how each of these ideas is related to Biblical teaching.
Hint: Refer to the lesson "Theory, Practice, and Models" for a list of the Declaration's main thoughts that are a part of the tradition of Western political thought (bottom of page 1). Type your findings using proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Proper documentation includes both parenthetical citations within the body of your report anytime you summarize or quote a source, as well as works cited page.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion