MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Life in the state of nature is filled with conflict and violence.
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People are the property of God and of God’s chosen rulers on Earth.
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People cannot be as wise as God and should not attempt to override God’s laws.
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Natural law applies to all people and must not be denied people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Locke’s theory of government postulates that societies in their original condition comprised only individuals, without government. Individuals in this “state of nature"9 pos-sessed certain inherent rights and liberties which existed inde-pendently of government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Locke’s approach to empiricism involves the claim that all knowledge comes from experience and that there are no innate ideas that are with us when we are born. At birth we are a blank slate, or tabula rasa in Latin. Experience includes both sensation and reflection.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Consent of the governed” refers to the idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented, or agreed to, by the people over which that political power is exercised.
Detailed explanation-4: -Locke (17th century) I, 2. In Locke’s philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the (human) mind is a “blank slate” without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one’s sensory experiences.