HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Appeal to the national religion to protect their natural rights
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Peacefully protest to a higher authority
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Overthrow their government
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Change their natural rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -But, Locke concluded, if a government persecutes its people with “a long train of abuses” over an extended period, the people have the right to resist that government, alter or abolish it, and create a new political system. Jefferson adopted John Locke’s theory of natural rights to provide a reason for revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Government, he said, was mainly necessary to promote the “public good, ‘’ that is to protect property and encourage commerce and little else. “Govern lightly, ‘’ Locke said. Locke favored a representative government such as the English Parliament, which had a hereditary House of Lords and an elected House of Commons.
Detailed explanation-3: -Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jefferson was influenced by John Locke’s philosophy of freedom, government, and natural rights that challenged the power of England’s monarchy in Europe over the colonies in America. Locke’s ideology of a government that benefits all of society and the people of that society was followed by Jefferson.