WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Detailed explanation-2: -Locke’s idea that a government’s power came from its people was the beginning of modern democracy. In France in the mid-1700s, the Enlightenment reached its height.

Detailed explanation-3: -Enlightenment thinkers believed that governments had a responsibility to hold up their end of the social contract. If a government failed, then citizens would no longer agree to be governed and they would have the right to revolt. This idea is known as consent of the governed.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Enlightenment helped combat the excesses of the church, establish science as a source of knowledge, and defend human rights against tyranny. It also gave us modern schooling, medicine, republics, representative democracy, and much more.

Detailed explanation-5: -He believed a state could only be legitimate if it received the consent of the governed through a social contract. In Locke’s view, social contract theory protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. If this did not happen, he argued, the people had a right to rebel.