Imagine you are preparing a speech on social contract theory for your government class. As part of your speech, you need to focus on the idea that people have the authority to overthrow a government that has become tyrannical. Which Enlightenment text would be good source material?
a)Hobbes’s Leviathan
b)Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
c)Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws
d)Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
e)Machiavelli’s The Prince

Question

Imagine you are preparing a speech on social contract theory for your government class. As part of your speech, you need to focus on the idea that people have the authority to overthrow a government that has become tyrannical. Which Enlightenment text would be good source material?
a)Hobbes’s Leviathan
b)Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
c)Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws
d)Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
e)Machiavelli’s The Prince