Answer: Correct Answers1.Local colonial governments lacked full authority.2.Political authority in the colonies was weak.
The public sphere. The notion of the ” public sphere ” began evolving during the Renaissance in Western Europe. Brought on partially by merchants’ need for accurate information about distant markets as well as by the growth of democracy and individual liberty and popular sovereignty the public sphere was a place between private individuals and government authorities in which people could meet and have critical debates about public matters .
The public sphere (German Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social lifewhere individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems and through that discussion influence political action. Such a discussion is called public debate and is defined as the expression of views on matters that are of concern to the public—often but not always with opposing or diverging views being expressed by participants in the discussion. Public debate takes place mostly through the mass media but also at me…
The creation of the public sphere has been associated with two long-term historical trends: the rise of the modern nation state and the rise of capitalism. The modern nation state in its consolidation of public power created by counterpoint a private realm of society independent of the state which allowed for the public sphere.
The salon and the ‘public sphere Recent historiography of the salons has been dominated by Jürgen Habermas’ work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (triggered largely by its translation into French in 1978 and then English in 1989) which argued that the salons were of …
The Republic of Letters (Respublica literaria) is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas.It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment …