John Locke advocated the three natural rights of man, which influenced many of the Enlightenment's changes and revolution. ... The first two estates had never gotten taxed before and now they were going to be by King Louie the Sixteenth, because of France's huge debt problem. ... The Assembly formed an army and stormed the Bastille, where the king was living at the time with his wife and children. ... There were many great thinkers of the Enlightenment, such as John Locke, Galileo, Voltaire, J.J. ...

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The old idea was that the king was sent by god to be a ruler, known as the divine right. ... John Locke, Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau expressed the main views on government. ... John Locke believed, as most people did, that the people were capable of helping make the government decisions. John Locke was a philosopher who believed that did not have to constantly be in war but they could learn from their mistakes and improve themselves. ...

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He speaks of man's natural right to govern themselves and King George's actions not protecting but suppressing these rights. ... This unending passion for the rights of man prompted John Adams to say, "Without the pen of Paine the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain"(Kashathus 2)....

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