... a weak federal government, as contrary to British Parliament as they could achieve. The Revolutionists' reasons for rebellion stemmed from the philosophies of John Locke. Locke stated that men enter into society to preserve their life, liberty, and property "and when the government takes away or destroys the ... the Revolution and in 1786 they closed the county courts to keep their farms from being foreclosed "a clear violation of property according to Locke and cause for a state of war "and attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield. Three months later the militia had put down ... is...

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... merits of the Montesquieu did not turn up until The Federalist; and although a perverse argument could be made that Madison's ideal was truly in the tradition of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, the Locke whom the American rebels treated as an honorary president was a pluralistic defender of vested rights, not of parliamentary supremacy. The critical fight was over representation of the states ... ...

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