WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This philosopher wrote in The Two Treatises of Government that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property.
A
Thomas Hobbes
B
Mary Wollstonecraft
C
John Locke
D
Baron Montesquieu
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In political theory, or political philosophy, John Locke refuted the theory of the divine right of kings and argued that all persons are endowed with natural rights to life, liberty, and property and that rulers who fail to protect those rights may be removed by the people, by force if necessary.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Two Treatises of Government is a work of Political Philosophy authored by John Locke, who was an English Philosopher in 1689.

Detailed explanation-3: -He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances. He also provided powerful arguments in favor of religious toleration.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Locke-Two Treatises of Government | Britannica.

Detailed explanation-5: -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."

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