... ends there, however. Jefferson's theory of revolution, as well as Locke's theory of government, could stand only as counterparts and arguments against Hobbes's belief in a monarchial government, which he deemed Leviathan. It is clear that more ideals from Locke's theory of government found their way into the epic declaration that set America free. Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government, described ... from many of the Enlightenment philosophers" ideas of natural right and natural law, and applied their notions to America's situation in the New World. Some of Hobbes's political theor...

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