The king's unjust rule in the colonies had to be abolished and replaced with their own just government. ... Although not specific, it is clear that the Founding Fathers inspiration for rebellion and abolition came from John Locke. ... John Locke extends the role of the state of nature into the idea of property. ... Every man is a "king". ... When Jefferson made his list of facts concerning the king's oppression of the states, it is clear that the pursuit of property would look very limiting to John Locke. ...

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This not only caused unrest for Washington, but for all colonists, who were now thinking of breaking away from King George III and England. ... A lesser person might have used this power to establish a military dictatorship or to become king. ... Washington lived only two years after turning over the presidency to his successor, John Adams. ... After the war John Adams became vice-president under George Washington for two terms. ... After John Adams Jefferson became the United States third president. ...

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Hobbes and Locke; the State of Nature and Sovereignty John Locke and Thomas Hobbes both wrote on many of the same issues of social philosophy yet due to a basic different philosophical conception of the world, they held very different opinions. ... For reasons too many psychoanalysts could posit, John Locke saw things quite differently, beginning most importantly with his conception of the state of nature. ... He saw man in the state of nature as a king, "an absolute lord over his person and possessions-. ... However as soon as it stops fulfilling its end of the deal, a la Kin...

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On June 11th 1776, a five men committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration by the Continental Congress. ... Afterwards a trial was held but the British, represented by John Adams and Josiah Quincy III, were acquitted. ... Even the king cannot be immune to the "Laws of Nature". ... Following the preamble is a long list of, historical and political, wrong doings by King George III, who is referred to as "He". ... It appealed to its audience because it was written...

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During the Glorious Revolution, tensions drew in America over the crowning of King James II. ... (American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Descartes" theories were opposed, however, by British philosophers of the empiricist tradition, such as John Locke, who believed that all ideas are derived from the senses. ... As John Locke wrote in The Reasonableness of Christianity:In this state of darkness and ignorance of the true God, vice and superstition held the world; no...

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During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... Jonathan Mayhew justified overthrowing the King by proving that intentional unjust laws are considered abuse. ... One would see petitions overlooked and the foolish and harshness of the crown (a.k.a. the King). ... John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, he calls for the people to stand up and fight with their fellow brothers. ... The law set against the colonists were unjust, and the King did not change them regardless of how many petitions the...

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The British now targeted the two people that had begun the revolution, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. ... While John Hancock, who was a smuggler in Boston represented the rich, who opposed the British because of the annoying taxation. ... It followed the natural rights tenets of the British philosopher John Locke, whose writings had justified independence as the will of the people and revolution as a device for bringing happiness. ...

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During this period of time, there were some very important people emerging in the history of United States, John Wilks from Great Britain was very famous and significant among them. ... Colonists looked to John Wilks as somehow a successful example for fighting for liberty, or welfare, against the established authority. ... Besides these commons, John Wilks had established personal connection with some of these colonists and offered them advice of what could be done at certain points. ... The prevailing petition movements also showed this particular attitudes among the colonists that they th...

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Although Britain had won the war, King George II decided to undertake a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over its rather autonomous colonies. ... This aggravated the colonies in America as the King wanted them to help pay for their defence and the expenses. ... "The Bloody Massacre in King-Street,"6 which was probably the most effective piece of war propaganda, depicts the British massacring peaceful colonists in cold blood. ...

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This however only angered the king more, only adding to the growing bitterness between Great Britain and the colonies. ... As time went on, the king passed acts that enabled him to be able to appoint people to positions of power in the colonies instead of the people living there. ... Lastly, the king finally passed what are called the Prohibitory Acts. ... With this, John Locke's political ideals enveloped the nation. ... Because King Charles III could not help but tax the colonies and take away what little power they had, he lost his colonies and helped to forge one of the strongest na...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. ... He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis. Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Readers interested in a wider view...

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In 1785, John Jay instructed the US minister to Great Britain to demand "in a respectful but firm manner" the return of frontier posts on US territory controlled by the British and the end of British restrictions on US trade. ... With Spain, two problems confronted Congress, as related by John Jay in 1786: Spain asked the US to relinquish navigation rights on the Mississippi and to give up its claims to certain western lands. ... A letter from John Jay to George Washington--both were wealthy aristocrats--expressed the fear that "the better kind of people [the aristocracy or patrician class] wi...

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" is there any inhabitant in America so ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the PRESENT CONSTITUTION, that this continent can make no laws but what the king gives it leave to; and is there any man so unwise, as not to see, that (considering what has happened) he will suffer no law to be made here, but such as suit HIS purpose." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... Faced with the discontent of the colonists, ranging from insubstantial talk right up to the open rebellions ...

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Throughout the sixteen hundreds, Great Britain was more involved in solving the Constitutional issue of who was to have more power in English government, the king or parliament. ... "North was the kind of politician George had been looking for ----a plodding, dogged, industrious man, neither a fool nor a genius, much like the king himself. ... The spokesperson of the colonies, John Dickinson, wrote in his "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer," on the issue of direct taxes. ... The Massachusetts Government Act said that the Governor's council had to be appointed by the King and limited town m...

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Henceforth the king was the sole repository of sovereign power. In a very real sense the king was the state. ... Philosophers as the father of liberal theory John Locke spread a body of ideas of reform to lead French people through the liberty path and make them believe there was a chance for a better life. ... Again the picture is the same as in the French Revolution: the appearance of a tyrannical government "The King George who felt that it would maintain the general principle that this government had the right to impose citizen's duties" and people fighting for their rights "The...

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In John Dickinson's "Letter 2" from Letters from a Farmer he writes, "If Great-Britain can order us to come to her for necessaries we want, and can order us to pay what taxes she pleases before we take them away, or when we land them here, we are as abject slaves as France and Poland can show in wooden shoes, and with uncombed hair", [Dic68]. ... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry out their threats, which are to make the town a desolate wil...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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According to Read, "the new government, then, was to be a balanced one, blending the elements of King (the lieutenant governor), Lords (the two appointed councils), and Commons (the assembly) (Read, 1985, p. 6). ... As a way to set an example, the ruling of Chief Justice Sir John Robinson, incredibly influenced by the ideas of John Locke, argued that "as a protector of the lives, liberty and prosperity of its subjects, could legitimately demand allegiance to its authority" (cited in Read 1985, p. 14), thereby sentencing the bulk of the ring leaders to public hanging, most well k...

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They were afraid of the king getting too strong, and they wished to maintain local control. ... John Adams complained in a letter to his wife and stated, "our struggle has loosened the bands of government everywhere" (Nash 126). ... In a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams, she says, "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. ...

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Incidents such as the seizure of a ship belonging to John Hancock (1768), the Boston massacre in 1770 and the burning of the H.M.S.Gaspee in 1772 kept the flame of rebellion lit. ... A petition was sent to the King. ... The Declaration then goes on to mention a large number of grievances against the monarchy (Referred to as "HE", which should be taken as reference to the King of England). ...

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The times are more structured; consider the rule of the king verses a republican form of government. ... While the colonies are educating its younger people with strict rules and regulations, the Quakers had developed a type of family life that echoes John Locke's ideas on child rearing. ...

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Looking at the Sugar act, which was created in 1763 by George Grenville who was appointed first minister, by King George III to solving England's debt crisis.# This act is the beginning of Britain's colonies, America to resist imperial control over them. ... Harcourt College Publishers, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL. 2.Garraty, John. ...

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