USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
John Locke wrote that people had ____ such as life, liberty, and property, that no government could take away.
A
common law
B
natural rights
C
enlightenment
D
joint stock company
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The first major proponent of natural rights was John Locke. He famously claimed that all human individuals have a right to life, liberty, and property. No sovereign, moreover, could legitimately infringe on those rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.

Detailed explanation-3: -In political theory, or political philosophy, John Locke refuted the theory of the divine right of kings and argued that all persons are endowed with natural rights to life, liberty, and property and that rulers who fail to protect those rights may be removed by the people, by force if necessary.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Locke (1632–1704) was another prominent Western philosopher who conceptualized rights as natural and inalienable. Like Hobbes, Locke believed in a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

Detailed explanation-5: -Everyone gains the security of knowing that their rights to life, liberty, and property are protected. According to Locke, the main purpose of government is to protect those natural rights that the individual cannot effectively protect in a state of nature.

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