THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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John Locke
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Louis XIV
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Frederick II
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Catherine the Great
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Detailed explanation-1: -Locke’s primary aim in the Second Treatise is to show that absolute monarchy is an illegitimate form of government, lacking the right to coerce people to obey it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Absolute monarchies include Brunei, Eswatini, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, and the individual emirates composing the United Arab Emirates, which itself is a federation of such monarchies – a federal monarchy.
Detailed explanation-3: -He believed that the best government was a constitutional monarchy, one where there is a king whose power is heavily limited by constitutional obligations to provide for the fair and just treatment of his citizens. Essentially, Locke believed that the king only held the power to rule if those ruled consented to it.
Detailed explanation-4: -He challenged the idea of an absolute monarchy on the basis that leaving the absolute monarch free to take the property or life of any member of society without redress violated natural rights.