THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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if a government violated people’s natural rights
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if a government failed to protect people from economic inequality
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Hobbes believes that humans have no moral compass unless there are predetermined rules to say what actions are good or bad. There is no morality in the state of nature. There is no contract without an absolute power to enforce it. Therefore, justice only comes into existence when the sovereign is established.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as “social contract theory”, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hobbes and Locke argued that the state had arisen out of a voluntary agreement, or social contract, made by individuals who recognised that only the establishment of sovereign power could safeguard them from the insecurity of the state of nature.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which statement describes the impact of the idea of government as a social contract on the French Revolution in 1789? Thomas Hobbes argued that governments resulted from a social contract to maintain an orderly society.