THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Write a letter
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Suggest how it could be better
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Wait until they started to respect the people’s rights
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Abolish it
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Detailed explanation-1: -He argued in his opening two paragraphs that a people had the right to overthrow their government when it abused their fundamental natural rights over a long period of time.
Detailed explanation-2: -How does Thomas Jefferson use John Locke’s social contract ideas in the Preamble of the Declaration? Jefferson agreed that man had natural rights, inalienable rights, including “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Jefferson viewed that “all men are created equal."
Detailed explanation-3: -Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.
Detailed explanation-4: -We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.