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?
Hobbes’s Leviathan
Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
Machiavelli’s The Prince

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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?
Hobbes’s Leviathan
Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
Machiavelli’s The Prince