THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Overthrow the government
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Petition the government for their rights
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Nothing, the people don’t have rights
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They can then create a new government. Locke argued and the Founders agreed that if a government fails to protect the people’s rights, the people have a right of revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jefferson writes that when and if an established government fails to protect our natural rights, its only legitimate function, it is the right of the people to abolish it, and establish new government to achieve these ends.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since governments exist by the consent of the people in order to protect the rights of the people and promote the public good, governments that fail to do so can be resisted and replaced with new governments. Locke is thus also important for his defense of the right of revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain “inalienable” natural rights. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are “life, liberty, and property."
Detailed explanation-5: -Locke believed that in a state of nature, people protect their natural rights – life, liberty and property-by using their own strength and skill. The weaker and less skilled would find it difficult to protect their rights.