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

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?



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

godmod360 · Answer

Well which do you believe it is

anonymous · Answer

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godmod360 · Answer

well social constructs are from the leviathan yes but i do not believe the idea of overthrowing tyranny is  from John Locke since his idea is that government serves its people but Hobbes believes that the people serve the sovereign in a master servant or paternal relationship