Louis XIV Said, I Am The State. John Locke Said That All Men Are Entitled To Lif

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Term Paper Title	Louis XIV Said, I Am The State. John Locke Said That All Men Are Entitled To Lif
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     Louis XIV said, "I am the state." John Locke said that all men are entitled to "life, liberty, and property." These two men had very conflicting views on politics, society, religion, and basic rights.
     First I will discuss Louis XIV's views. He ruled based on the "divine right of kings." the divine right of kings came from political theorist Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bosset (1627-1704) who argued, "only God could judge a king"(pp592). Louis declared "L'etat, c'est moi" or "I am the state" because it was believed that he was above the laws and dictates of nobles and parliaments. Being that France was made up of people of mostly the Catholic faith, they believed that God gave Louis XIV the power to rule and thought of him as higher than any law that was made.
     Although King Louis XIV was a divine ruler, he did not display too strong of a control over his subjects' lives in everyday society as police states would do in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (pp592). For rights, when he was at his strongest rule, the local institutions' administrative authority still remained in the hands of townspeoples and nobles who controlled them. Although the King would not allow local elites to attain to some of his power on a national level, he did support their financial and social privileges.
     The main religion in France at this time was Catholicism. Because of that, many people followed the idea of divine rule, and that God himself gave Louis XIV and other kings the right to rule. In October of 1685, he revoked the Edict of Nantes which allowed and protected the freedoms and rights of French Protestants. Louis XIV believed that a country has to be under  one king, one law, and one religion in order for it to be under one control. He did not allow the Protestants to assemble for public worship and  he threatened Protestant priests. Children who were born to Protestant parents must be sent to Catholic church to be baptized or pay a 500 livres fine if they don't and the children must be brought up Catholic. Louis XIV stated that ...

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