EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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it is a duty of government to impose its will regardless of what citizens think.
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only the strong will survive in a new government in the colonies.
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it is the duty of the citizens to replace any government that fail to protect “natural rights.”
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subjects (people) to the Crown are there to serve their king without question.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Locke, the government must be a “neutral judge” of law with no right to interfere in the lives of the individual. The most radical idea to come from Locke’s pen was the idea of governmental legitimacy. Locke believed that a government should be beholden to the people rather than vice-versa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Theorists such as the English philosopher John Locke believed that if a ruler goes against natural law and fails to protect “life, liberty, and property, ” then the people are justified in overthrowing the existing state.
Detailed explanation-3: -His political theory of government by the consent of the governed as a means to protect the three natural rights of “life, liberty and estate” deeply influenced the United States’ founding documents. His essays on religious tolerance provided an early model for the separation of church and state.