THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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____ wrote that people were born free and that they naturally had certain rights. The most important of these rights were life, liberty, and property.
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Voltaire
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Rousseau
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Locke
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Hobbes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -John Locke on the rights to life, liberty, and property of ourselves and others (1689) Found in The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.)
Detailed explanation-2: -John Locke was the first significant proponent of natural rights. He famously asserted that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property. Furthermore, no sovereign has the authority to infringe on another sovereign’s rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress adopted the historic text drafted by Thomas Jefferson, they did not intend it to mean individual equality.
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