USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who believed that our natural rights are life, liberty, and property?
A
Voltaire
B
Locke
C
Rousseau
D
Montesquieu
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Locke was the first significant proponent of natural rights. He famously asserted that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -A central argument made by Locke is that each individual has a natural right to life, liberty and property, even in the state of nature. These natural rights flow from natural law and are governed by it. These rights are pre-political and are, thus, in effect granted by God and held by every individual from birth.

Detailed explanation-4: -Locke said, ‘The state of nature, a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyman and reason which that law teaches all mankind who will but consent to it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty and possessions. No one can take away these rights.

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