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Tony Blair

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Leader of the labour party in GB in 1997. He won in a landslide of votes. Tried to move the labour party away from the left and more toward the center. Responsible for: Bank of England owned by nongovernment workers, Devolution for Scottland and Wales, Reducing hereditary peers powers in the House of Lords, Pressuring public schools for scholarships, Good Friday Agreement in Norhtern Ireland

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Tony Blair

Thomas Hobbs

A philosopher that had the idea of stability and order and didn't wasnt men to be at war with other men; he emphasized this through the Social Contract

Social Contract

-the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.

-an agreement for mutual benefit between an individual or group and the government or community as a whole.

Tsar Nicholos II

The Tsar of Russia until 1917 when he is pressured to step down voluntary and the Tsar picked his brother to be the next Tsar but his brother was not interested in being a monarch and handed it off the the Provisional Government who temporarily was the Duma

Gordon Brown

- When Blair resigns from office, the party picks Gordon Brown as next PM, and he waits until his final term is up to hold election and he loses to Cameron in the 2010 election
- This British politician was born in 1951 and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007(Before he got picked to be PM). A member of Parliament since 1983, successor of Tony Blair.