HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Protection of individual rights
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Majority rule
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separation of powers
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idea of a perfect union
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau would be most likely to support the citizens’ right to decide the best form of government.
Detailed explanation-3: -These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”-life, liberty, and property. 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.