THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
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Montesquieu
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Voltaire
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
Detailed explanation-2: -Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain “inalienable” natural rights. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are “life, liberty, and property."
Detailed explanation-3: -John Locke According to Locke, a ruler gains authority through the consent of the governed. The duty of that government is to protect the natural rights of the people, which Locke believed to include life, liberty, and property.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Locke and the Declaration of Independence John Locke is one of the most well-known Enlightenment thinkers and is credited with inspiring Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence. His most famous work, Two Treatises of Government, was written during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.