THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Locke believed that the best government should have limited power and be accepted by all the people governed.
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Locked believed that a government should be run by an absolute monarch.
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Locke believed that government should be a theocracy.
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Locke believed that people were evil and could not govern themselves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In politics, Locke is best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances.
Detailed explanation-2: -Locke favored a representative government such as the English Parliament, which had a hereditary House of Lords and an elected House of Commons. But he wanted representatives to be only men of property and business. Consequently, only adult male property owners should have the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -Locke’s limited government can be defined as one in which “a morally legitimate government coerces only those who freely and voluntarily consent to its authority” (Locke on Government, Arneson). Therefore, in Locke’s theory of politics, a government can only work if its people are consenting.
Detailed explanation-4: -Government, he argued, should be limited to securing the life and property of its citizens, and is only necessary because in an ideal, anarchic state of nature, various problems arise that would make life more insecure than under the protection of a minimal state.