THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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The people
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The elite nobles
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small group of rulers
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kings and queens
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enlightenment philosophers John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all developed theories of government in which some or even all the people would govern. These thinkers had a profound effect on the American and French revolutions and the democratic governments that they produced.
Detailed explanation-2: -A government’s power comes from the consent of the people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enlightenment thinkers favored much more democratic forms of government in which the authority to rule stemmed from those who are ruled. Some of the most famous Enlightenment thinkers, including Locke and Rousseau, were social contract theorists.
Detailed explanation-4: -Two Treatises of Government, written by John Locke, developed the idea of “right of revolution". This notion was used as a basis for the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Locke (1632–1704) Locke believed that in a state of nature, humans were rational beings and equal in their natural rights to life, liberty, and property, which could not be taken away by anyone without their consent.