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Modern Government: How States Construct Themselves
500 Years of the Modern World, Season 3
Completed · 38 episodes
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1. Li Yun: Modernization Is Not a Straight, Bright Road 2. The King Under Law: Inventors of Modern Government and the Common Law 3. The Mythologized Magna Carta: Today's Democratic Foundation, Yesterday's Failed Agreement 4. Why Does Britain's Parliament Resemble a Marketplace? The Political Art of Conflict and Compromise 5. Five Centuries, One Legal Code, One Revolution: The Birth of British Constitutional Monarchy 6. Why Did Britain Keep Its King and Nobility After Aristocratic Politics Yielded to Popular Rule? 7. The Declaration of Independence and America's Political Spirit: Natural Rights, Popular Sovereignty, and Federalism 8. Creating and Dividing Power: The Political Miracle of the Philadelphia Convention 9. Why Is Judicial Review a Great Political Invention? The Election Crisis of 1800 and Marbury v. Madison 10. Remaking America: Slavery, the Civil War, and the Union's “Reverse Constitution-Making” 11. Fulfilling the Declaration's Promise: Civil Rights and the Constitution's Turn Toward Rights Bonus | Why Use History to Explain British and American Government? 12. Making the People: The French Revolution's Ideals and Bloody Reality 13. Failure of the First Republic: King, Parliament, or Dictator—Who Could Govern Effectively? 14. The Many Forms of Parliament: From the Bourbon Restoration to the Paris Commune 15. Consolidating Parliamentary Government: The Parliamentary Republic and the Third Republic 16. What Is the Ideal Republic? The Fifth Republic's Semi-Presidential System Bonus Dialogue | Xu Xiaoliang × Zhai Zhiyong: Why Does French Government Differ from Britain and America, and Why Does Equality Precede Liberty? 17. The Second Empire and Constitutional Monarchy: Why Does an Emperor Need a Constitution? 18. Weimar: Why Did an Apparently Perfect Constitution Fail? 19. The State of Exception: Did Hitler Really Seize Power Legally? 20. The Nuremberg Trials: Why Not Simply Execute Nazi War Criminals? 21. Germany's Contribution: Constitutional Patriotism and an Open Basic Law Listener Questions | How Does Nationalism Relate to British, American, French, and German Government? What Exactly Was Nazism? 22. From Monarchy to the Soviet System: Why Did the Russian Revolution Choose the Dictatorship of the Proletariat? 23. Establishing the Soviet System and Its Flaws: Lenin and the 1918 Constitution 24. How Do You Create a Socialist Union of States? The 1924 Constitution and Russian Dominance 25. Establishing Stalinism and Its Flaws: The 1936 Constitution and the Nationalization of the Soviet System 26. Constitutional Roots of Soviet Collapse: The Party and State of the Whole People in the 1977 Constitution Listener Questions | How Did the Soviet and Representative Systems Differ? Could Globalization Sustain a Soviet System? 27. What Is a “Civilized Nation”? The Black Ships and Japan's Opening 28. What Is an Imperially Granted Constitution? The Emperor and the Meiji Constitution 29. Why Did Japan Take the Constitutional Road to Militarism? Conflicts in the Meiji Constitution 30. Why Does Japan Refuse to Admit Guilt? The Tokyo Trial and Japan's Second Transformation 31. Why Does Postwar Japanese Politics Constantly Debate Constitutional Revision? Listener Questions | What Can Japan's Modernization Teach Us? Is “Normalization” Driving Constitutional Reform? Bonus Conclusion | The Framework of Modern Government: Popular Sovereignty, Representation, and Constitutions Live in London 2024 | Why Was Britain's Election Called Early? Is the Prime Minister Just an Employee?