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?

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anonymous · Answer

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

paki · Answer

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