John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about the governments obligation to uphold peoples rights andhow the government should be based on the consent of the governed. The new ideas encouraged people to dowhich of the following?

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John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about the government’s obligation to uphold people’s rights andhow the government should be based on the consent of the governed. The new ideas encouraged people to dowhich of the following?

A	Look for leaders that would use dictatorial powers
B	Continue to support absolute monarchs
C	Engage in revolutions to establish democratic governments
D	Call for church leasers to create theocracies

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Locke and Rousseau principally disagree on naturalism and the use of habits and social conventions for the education of young children. Fundamentally, their theories of education rest on how they construe the relationship between nurture and nature and what the role of the educated man is in society.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau would be most likely to support the citizens’ right to decide the best form of government. Locke and Rousseau believed that people entered into social contracts to protect their basic rights and create a government; hence Enlightened Despotism was anathema to their way of thinking.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though they are from different times of the Enlightenment era, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau all believed in natural rights and consent of the governed.

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