HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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The Declaration of Independence
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The Communist Manifesto
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The Gettysburg Address
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The United Nation’s Charter
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ideas of Locke and Rousseau are found MOST easily in which of these documents? The Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-2: -Both John Locke (1632-1734) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) write as early modern social contract theorists, and both promote reason and freedom as essential components of political societies.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson used the thoughts first penned by John Locke while writing the Declaration of Independence. The phrase “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, ‘’ was an idea first considered by Locke in his Two Treatises on Government.
Detailed explanation-5: -During political exile in Holland, Locke refined his most famous works of philosophy and political theory: the Essay concerning Human Understanding and the Two Treatises of Government, respectively.
Detailed explanation-6: -Locke was more restrained when it came to the idea of setting up guidelines for governments to not infringe on the rights of its citizen’s liberty. While Rousseau, through the assembly and the general will refuse to let individual freedom be taken away by any government unless it is done by the majority of the people.