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

angeleyes108 · Answer

If you were to preparing a speech on social contract theory and needed to focus on the idea that citizens have the authority to overthrow a government if it becomes tyrannical you would want to used Locke's Second Treatise on Government. Locke, a famous Enlightenment thinker championed these ideas in his works which later served as a philosophical underpinning for the American Revolution.

angeleyes108 · Answer

So, B: Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

tahuic · Answer

thanks

angeleyes108 · Answer

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