AP European History Chapter 17: 1850-1879 Section 1: 1850-1859 Political History By Dallin F. Hardy Political Theory Frederic Bastiat French political theorist The Law 1850 Frederic Bastiat Principles of Limited government Freedom Liberty Minarchism A minimal state limited to protecting natural rights Natural Rights “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” Frederic Bastiat The Law Liberty “…The freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so…” Frederic Bastiat The Law Non-Aggression Principle Individuals are free from the initiation of force Legal Plunder “When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it—without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.” Frederic Bastiat The Law Herbert Spencer English political philosopher and scientist Social Statics 1851 Herbert Spencer On Liberty 1859 John Stuart Mill France Coup d'état of 1852 December 2, 1852 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon III 1852-1870 Emperor of France Second French Empire 1852-1870 Ottoman Empire “Sick man of Europe” 1853 Ottoman Empire Term coined by John Russell Crimean War Crimean War 1853-1856 Britain & France Declare War on Russia March 28, 1854 Siege of Sevastopol October 17, 1854-1855 Battle of Balaclava October 25, 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade Russia Alexander II 1855-1881 Emperor of Russia Expansion of Russia 1855 Crimean War Treaty of Paris 1856 Piedmont-Sardinia Camillo Cavour 1852-1861 Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia Camillo Benso Count of Cavour Plombières Agreement 1858 Between France Piedmont-Sardinia Second Italian War for Independence 1859 Austro-Italian War Battle of Magenta June 4, 1859 Battle of Solferino June 24, 1859 Armistice Villafranca 1859 Uniting with Piedmont 1859 Britain Broad Street Cholera Outbreak 1854 London British Empire Second Opium War 1856-1860 China Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857 Crown Rule in India 1858-1947 British Raj Africa South African Republic 1852-1902 .